Name: The Triumph of Religion
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Author: Lacan, Jacques ; Fink, Bruce
ISBN: 9780745659909

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jacques Lacan

Translated by

Bruce Fink

Publisher

Polity Press

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

18.5 x 11.7 x 1.0 cm

Weight

0.07 kg.

ISBN13

9780745659909

Synopsis "The Triumph of Religion"

"I am the product of priests", Lacan once said of himself. 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. He was wonderfully able to speak to Catholics and to bring them around to psychoanalysis. 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. 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

Jacques Lacan

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(Paris, 1901 — 1981). He was a French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst known for the theoretical contributions he made to psychoanalysis based on analytical experience and the reading of Freud, while also incorporating elements of structuralism, structural linguistics, mathematics, and philosophy.

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