Title The Heart of Man's Destiny : Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Early Reformation Thought

Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (177 pages) Series Psychoanalytic Explorations Psychoanalytic Explorations Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Cultural paternity: mapping the terrain; Freud's scepticism towards liberal Protestantism; Historical-critical methods; Religion as the aftermath of culpability; The roots of filiation: the church fathers; The key issue: the problem of evil; Lacan's project; The inaugural moment of the modern subject; The ethics of psychoanalysis; Desire, the law and the Thing; Moses' and Kant's Thing; Double government; The key words; 2 The will and the hidden God; The emergence of the dark God; Nominalism's fearsome God The Augustinian way: far from loving all mankindWhat he ought to do, not what he can do; Below the words and works; To be the object of hatred rather than love; The will, its object and cause; The denial of the good; The desire of the Other; Luther's Thing; The first cause and predestination; The inclinations of animals; The immanent cause; The repercussions of a new direction of thought; 3 Original sin and moral responsibility; Original sin: The many-headed Hydra; Evil nature; Moral responsibility and the ethics of honesty; Spinozian ethics; 4 Conscience; Synderesis and conscience: a sketch Luther's two kingdomsCalvin's double government; The most cruel of all executioners; Conscience and the sense of guilt; The obscure, blind, and tyrannical superego; Final remarks; Notes; References; Index Summary Can Luther's writings inform us on the fundamental questions of Freudian psychoanalysis? Does an intellectual filiation between early Reformation thought and psychoanalysis exist? Does Lacanian psychoanalysis offer an instrument for analysing theological writings?In The Heart of Man's Destiny, Herman Westerink offers a new reading of Lacan's seventh seminar, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis. Working from an innovative perspective, this book explores the close relationship between Freudian psychoanalysis and the ideas of the early Reformation. Lacan Notes Print version record Subject Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981. SUBJECT Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981 fast Subject Psychoanalysis and religion. Psychoanalysis -- Moral and ethical aspects Psychoanalysis -- Philosophy Reformation. Reformation. Psychoanalysis and religion Psychoanalysis -- Moral and ethical aspects Psychoanalysis -- Philosophy Reformation Form Electronic book ISBN 9781136244223 1136244220

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