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Author | : Mark Gerard Murphy |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2023-10-27 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 3031331079 |
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This book examines Lacanian psychoanalysis and Christian mystical theology demonstrating the former’s potential for reinvigorating spiritual direction. The author outlines how current methods of spiritual direction become saturated with self-help psycho-pop methodologies, and that desire has therefore been foreclosed in these practices. He suggests that the root of this is a focus on ‘positive affective experientialism’, which means spiritual direction must focus on emotional wholeness, healing and positivity. Finally, he argues that a new dialogue between John of the Cross (a mystic whose writings on spiritual direction formulate part of the core of the Catholic spiritual tradition) and Jacques Lacan can open the way for a spiritual direction beyond the confines of experientialism. The book concludes that we can only escape the experiential commodification of spiritual direction by critiquing the drive to experience in and of itself. This novel work will appeal in particular to students and scholars of psychoanalysis, religion, philosophy and critical theory.
Author | : Kay Bessler Northcutt |
Publisher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780800662639 |
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While searching for a model of preaching that is apt for our postmodern moment, Kay Northcutt respectfully eschews earlier models and suggests the what of preaching should consist in spiritual formation or the practice of spiritual direction. Taking an evocative, rather than how-to, approach, Northcutt notes the gaps created by earlier models and makes a case not only for framing preaching as an attractive art but also for understanding the preachers authority as religious in nature. The author provides readers with a new paradigm for developing their own homiletical discipline.
Author | : Ralph Martin |
Publisher | : Emmaus Road Publishing |
Total Pages | : 473 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Spiritual life |
ISBN | : 1931018367 |
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Winner: Honorable Mention from the Catholic Press Association Ralph Martin, drawing upon the teaching of seven acknowledged "Spiritual Doctors" of the Church, presents an indepth study of the journey to God. This book provides encouragement and direction for the pilgrim who desires to know, love, and serve our Lord. Whether the reader is beginning the spiritual journey or has been traveling the road for many years, he will find a treasure of wisdom in The Fulfillment of All Desire. It is destined to be a modern classic on the spiritual life.
Author | : Jacques Lacan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Psychoanalysis |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jacques Lacan |
Publisher | : Polity |
Total Pages | : 568 |
Release | : 2021-02-01 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9781509500284 |
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What does Lacan show us? He shows us that desire is not a biological function; that it is not correlated with a natural object; and that its object is fantasized. Because of this, desire is extravagant. It cannot be grasped by those who might try to master it. It plays tricks on them. Yet if it is not recognized, it produces symptoms. In psychoanalysis, the goal is to interpret—that is, to read—the message regarding desire that is harbored within the symptom. Although desire upsets us, it also inspires us to invent artifices that can serve us as a compass. An animal species has a single natural compass. Human beings, on the other hand, have multiple compasses: signifying montages and discourses. They tell you what to do: how to think, how to enjoy, and how to reproduce. Yet each person's fantasy remains irreducible to shared ideals. Up until recently, all of our compasses, no matter how varied, pointed in the same direction: toward the Father. We considered the patriarch to be an anthropological invariant. His decline accelerated owing to increasing equality, the growth of capitalism, and the ever-greater domination of technology. We have reached the end of the Father Age. Another discourse is in the process of taking the former's place. It champions innovation over tradition; networks over hierarchies; the draw of the future over the weight of the past; femininity over virility. Where there had previously been a fixed order, transformational flows constantly push back any and all limits. Freud was a product of the Father Age. He did a great deal to save it. The Catholic Church finally realized this. Lacan followed the way paved by Freud, but it led him to posit that the father is a symptom. He demonstrates that here using Hamlet as an example. What people have latched onto about Lacan's work—his formalization of the Oedipus complex and his emphasis on the Name-of-the-Father—was merely his point of departure. Seminar VI already revises this: the Oedipus complex is not the only solution to desire, it is merely a normalized form thereof; it is, moreover, a pathogenic form; it does not exhaustively explain desire’s course. Hence the eulogy of perversion with which this seminar ends: Lacan views perversion here as a rebellion against the identifications that assure the maintenance of social routines. This Seminar predicted “the revamping of formally established conformisms and even their explosion.” We have reached that point. Lacan is talking about us.
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Publisher | : Randy Shankle |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780974103501 |
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Author | : Jayson Sherrod |
Publisher | : Xulon Press |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2006-03 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1597819603 |
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Author | : Stanley M. BLIGH (Psychologist.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Stanley M. Bligh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Personality |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Judith Butler |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2012-05-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0231501420 |
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This classic work by one of the most important philosophers and critics of our time charts the genesis and trajectory of the desiring subject from Hegel's formulation in Phenomenology of Spirit to its appropriation by Kojève, Hyppolite, Sartre, Lacan, Deleuze, and Foucault. Judith Butler plots the French reception of Hegel and the successive challenges waged against his metaphysics and view of the subject, all while revealing ambiguities within his position. The result is a sophisticated reconsideration of the post-Hegelian tradition that has predominated in modern French thought, and her study remains a provocative and timely intervention in contemporary debates over the unconscious, the powers of subjection, and the subject.