Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: On Sublimation: The Significance of Psychoanalysis for the Study of Religion -- Chapter 2: We Are All Mad: Theology in the Shadow of a Black Sun -- Chapter 3: Desiring the Thing: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis -- Chapter 4: Foreclosing God: Heidegger, Lacan, and Kristeva -- Chapter 5: Anxiety and the S(ub)lime Body of God -- Chapter 6: Ages of the World and Creation ex Nihilo, Part I: Tillich and Schelling -- Chapter 7: Ages of the World and Creation ex Nihilo, Part II: Zizek and Lacan
Chapter 8: God Without Being (God): A Lacanian Critique of Jean-Luc MarionChapter 9: Expressing the Real: Lacan and the Limits of Language -- Chapter 10: Processing the Real: Sub-stance -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- Other Books in the Perspectives in Continental Philosophy Series
Summary
The sublime refers to a conflict of the Kantian faculties of reason and imagination, and involves the attempt to represent what is intrinsically unrepresentable. Through topics such as sublimation, schizophrenia, God, and creation ex nihilo, this book contributes to a form of radical theological thinking that is involved in the world
