Richard Boothby

Broschiertes Buch

Embracing the Void

Rethinking the Origin of the Sacred

Beschreibung

Lays out the range of Freudâ s attempts at a psychoanalytic theory of religion and then sketches the rough contours of Lacanâ s contrasting approach. From there, Boothby offers the theoretical tools for interpreting the religious impulse and analyzes key religious traditions.

Autor

RICHARD BOOTHBY is a professor of philosophy at Loyola University Maryland. He is the author of Death and Desire: Psychoanalytic Theory in Lacan's Return to Freud; Freud as Philosopher: Metapsychology after Lacan; Sex on the Couch: What Freud Still Has to Teach Us about Sex; and the memoir Blown Away: Refinding Life after My Son's Suicide.

Produktdetails

• Diaeresis
• Verlag: Northwestern University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 153mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 356g
• ISBN-13: 9780810145382
• ISBN-10: 0810145383
• Artikelnr.: 67094509