Theology After Lacan

Creston Davis is a founder, co-director and professor of philosophy at the Global Center for Advanced Studies. He is also professor of philosophy at the European Graduate School and at the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities. He is the co-author (with Slavoj Zizek and John Milbank) of Paul's New Moment, and (with Alain Badiou) the author of 'The Contradictions of America' (forthcoming). He has just completed his novel, 'Ghostly Icons'.Marcus Pound is Assistant Director of the Centre for Catholic Studies, Durham University, where he is Lecturer in Catholic Theology. His is the author of Theology, Psychoanalysis, and Trauma, and Slavoj Zizek: A (Very) Critical Introduction.Clayton Crockett is Associate Professor and Director of Religious Studies at the University of Central Arkansas. His most recent book is 'Deleuze Beyond Badiou: Ontology, Multiplicity and Event'.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction - Traversing the Theological Fantasy -Creston Davis, Marcus Pound, and Clayton CrockettPart One: Lacan, Religion, and Others1 Cogito, Madness, and Religion: Derrida, Foucault, and then Lacan -Slavoj Zizek2 Nothing Really Matters - Rhapsody for a Dead Queen: A Lacanian Reading of Thomas Aquinas -Tina Beattie3 Subjectification, Salvation, and the Real in Luther and Lacan -Carl Raschke4 Lacan avec le Bouddha: Thoughts on Psychoanalysis and Buddhism -Mario D'Amato5 Life Terminable and Interminable: The Undead and the Afterlife of the Afterlife - A Friendly Disagreement with Martin Hägglund -Adrian Johnston6 Solidarity in Suffering with the Non-Human -Katerina KolozovaPart II: Theology and the Other Lacan7 There Is Something of One (God): Lacan and Political Theology -Kenneth Reinhard8 Woman and the Number of God -Lorenzo Chiesa9 Secular Theology as Language of Rebellion -Noelle Vahanian10 Making the Quarter Turn: Liberation Theology after Lacan -Thomas Lynch11 By the Grace of Lacan -Marcus Pound12 The Triumph of Theology -Clayton CrockettContributorsBibliography

...Theology after Lacan promises to be a rewarding read for scholars interested in the implications of psychoanalytic thought for theology and vice versa.