By Tina T. Beattie
Theology after Postmodernity is a ground-breaking learn that has the potential to remodel the connection among psychoanalytic idea and Christian theology. examining the theology of Thomas Aquinas in shut engagement with the psychoanalytic concept of Jacques Lacan, Tina Beattie exhibits how Thomism exerted a formative impression on Lacan, and he or she additionally indicates how a Lacanian strategy can deliver wealthy new insights to Thomas's theology.
A starting to be variety of English-speaking students now realize the level to which 20th century French theorists and philosophers have been motivated through medieval theology, and there were numerous experiences of Jacques Lacan's Thomism. although, this is often the 1st research released in English to convey a Lacanian feminist point of view to undergo at the theology of Thomas Aquinas. targeting the centrality of hope in Thomas's theology and Lacan's psychoanalytic conception, Beattie follows Lacan alongside an overgrown and sometimes hidden course throughout the altering configurations of wish, gender, and data from their Aristotelian formation within the medieval universities to their fragmentation within the cave in of modernity's visions and values.
Beattie deals a penetrating critique of Thomas's Aristotelianism, yet she additionally excavates the paranormal treasures inside his theology. this permits her to teach how Thomas's God is still an subconscious yet powerful impact within the shaping of recent western concept, and to invite what differences may be wanted on the way to result in a Thomism for our occasions. Probing underneath the outside of Thomas's Summa Theologiae and different writings, she brings to gentle the opposite of Thomas's One God - an incarnate, maternal Trinity who emerges whilst Thomas's Aristotelian ontotheology is suspended and the extra overlooked points of his doctrinal and theological insights are allowed to emerge.
Lacan makes attainable a renewed Thomism which deals a wealthy theology of production, incarnation, and redemption able to responding to a couple of the main pressing and far-reaching demanding situations that questions of gender, nature, and God pose to Christian theological language in its classical and postmodern formations.
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To what extent does Thomas’s God correspond to Lacan’s real? How does Thomas’s understanding of language, desire, and God relate to Lacan’s defiant post-Catholic rebellion and its fragile linguistic hypotheses based on the psychoanalytic encounter? According to Lacan, this encounter is where the human soul, forsaken by God and abandoned by modern society, expresses its desolation and longing in the attentive presence of the one who has ears to hear, silence to keep, and time to listen—that is, the psychoanalyst.
3 Jacques-Alain Miller, Frontispiece to Jacques Lacan, Le Triomphe De La Religion Précédé De Discours Aux Catholiques (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2005). 16 Theology after Postmodernity the human when there is no God and when creation itself is a product of language encircled around a void (the Lacanian real). Pitting himself against the apparent self-assurance of modernity’s rational, knowing subject and the political structures that sustain him (the subject is, according to Lacan, necessarily masculine), Lacan refracts modern man’s identity through the prism of otherness and desire in order to bring to light the darker aspects of his soul which have been driven underground in the making of the modern mind.
The drive towards the singularity of the One, epitomized not only in Hegel’s rational Absolute but in all forms of philosophical and theological monotheism that seek a unified point of truth as the ultimate goal of human existence, deceives us into believing that there is a perfect object capable of satisfying our desire. We seek this in and beyond every other object of desire, because it holds out the seductive promise of restoring us to a sense of wholeness and bliss associated with the phallic body, which is also the maternal body.