The Triumph of Religion
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (555 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 074565990X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 96 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Mad Max said "2 lectures plus Q&A Session, previously unpublished in English. A few fun moments, though not a great starting point for Lacan" according to Mad Max. This is a cute little book, with transcripts (translated into English) of short lectures by Lacan from an insignificant 1960 symposium:"Regarding Morality, Freud Has What It Takes"and"Can Psychoanalysis Constitute the Kind of Ethics Necessitated by our Times?"The second half of the book is a Q&A session of the symposium, in which the following topics were covered (or rather, these questions were asked of the speaker):-Governing Educating and Analyzing-The Anxiety of Scientists-The Triumph of Religion (o. lectures plus Q&A Session, previously unpublished in English. A few fun moments, though not a great starting point for Lacan. This is a cute little book, with transcripts (translated into English) of short lectures by Lacan from an insignificant 1960 symposium:"Regarding Morality, Freud Has What It Takes"and"Can Psychoanalysis Constitute the Kind of Ethics Necessitated by our Times?"The second half of the book is a Q&A session of the symposium, in which the following topics were covered (or rather, these questions were asked of the speaker):-Governing Educating and Analyzing-The Anxiety of Scientists-The Triumph of Religion (o. catholicism and the use of meaning two talks on psychoanalytic practice and religion, that is, the catholic religion. in the first talk, divided in two lectures, open to the general public, given in 1960 at the faculties universitaires saint-louis in brussels, belgium, lacan points out a similarities. both professions involve confessors, both answer to `the law' of the father in their practice. lacan says that what concerns him is ethics. he speaks of ethics as situated in the texts of freud, and freudian topics of desire, narcissism, an. Impenetrable prose and obscure objectives Will Barto This is a profoundly difficult book to read, and even more difficult to review. The author was a controversial twentieth-century French psychiatrist whose ideas had influence far outside psychotherapy. This book is styled "The Triumph of Religion, preceded by Discourse to Catholics." The title could lead the potential reader to conclude that the book was focused in some significant way on issues of religion and Catholicism. This would be a mistake, as the book is largely about the limits of psychoanalys
"I am the product of priests", Lacan once said of himself. Jesuits flocked to his school.Freud, an old-style Enlightenment optimist, believed religion was merely an illusion that the progress of the scientific spirit would dissipate in the future. He was wonderfully able to speak to Catholics and to bring them around to psychoanalysis. Educated by the Marist Brothers (or Little Brothers of Mary), he was a pious child and acquired considerable, personal knowledge of the torments and cunning of Christian spirituality. Lacan did not share this belief in the slightest: he thought, on the contrary, that the true religion, Roman Catholicism, would take in everyone in the end, pouring bucketsful of meaning over the ever more insistent and unbearable real that we, in our times, owe to science. - Jacques-Alain Miller
His many works include Écrits, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-analysis and the many volumes of The Seminar. Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) was one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers.
. About the AuthorJacques Lacan (1901-1981) was one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers. His many works include Écrits, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-analysis and the many volumes of The Seminar