Secular Messiahs and the Return of Paul’s 'Real'

Concetta V. Principe takes a Lacanian psychoanalytic approach to comparative explorations of twentieth-century texts. Her articles exploring trauma in cultural and political texts have appeared in Journal of Cultural Research and Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory. She currently teaches at York University, Canada.

• Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Trauma of Secularism 2. Messianic Roads and Highways: From Paul's Weakness to Benjamin's Weak 3. Paul and the Law: Love, Circumcision and the Death of Sin 4. Interpellation Beyond Interpellation 5. Messianic Exceptions Conclusion Bibliography

“Secular Messiahs and the Return of Paul’s ‘Real’: A Lacanian Approach is, to conclude, a worthwhile read and deserves a place in the expanding field of Pauline studies. Principe has done us a favor by pulling together many strands of the scholarship and presenting them in a unified manner based upon a Lacanian reading.” (Thomas C. Edmondson, Reading Religion, readingreligion.org, July, 2017)