In the name of the Father : God in Lacan, Judaic or Christian? Sharpe, Matthew 2008, In the name of the Father : God in Lacan, Judaic or Christian?, Psychoanalytische perspectieven, vol. 26, no. 3/4, pp. 267-285. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title In the name of the Father : God in Lacan, Judaic or Christian? Author(s) Sharpe, Matthew orcid.org/0000-0002-8165-5775 Journal name Psychoanalytische perspectieven Volume number 26 Issue number 3/4 Start page 267 End page 285 Total pages 19 Publisher Ghent University Place of publication Ghent, Belgium Publication date 2008 ISSN 0771-5862 Keyword(s) Lacan Freud Religion Totem and taboo Monotheism Judaism Summary This essay challenges the widespread notion that Lacanian psychoanalysis represents a 'Christianing' of psychoanalysis. It argues that Lacanian psychoanalysis brings to psychoanalysis a broadly "Averroist" attitude towards religion which develops out of and transcends Freud's position in Totem and Taboo. For Lacan, religious texts are an invaluable source of pre-psychoanalytic insight or another regal road into the champ Freudien: the dynamic of human beings' desire, in its co-conformity with language and Law. The text focuses on trying to decipher the missing content of the Names of the Father seminar: the seminar that "does not exist" (Miller, 2006) beyond its opening, esoteric and dramatic session. The force of doing this will be to show how much, and how fundamental, the things are that Lacan thinks the bible, and the first Abrahamic monotheism in particular, can teach us about human subjectivity and the instance of the Law that shapes it - insights which go to explain Freud's unmistakable attachment, despite himself, to the civilizational importance of his fathers. Language eng Field of Research 220315 Philosophy of Religion Socio Economic Objective 970122 Expanding Knowledge in Philosophy and Religious Studies HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2008, Uitgever Psychoanalytische Perspectieven. Gent Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30036784 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of International and Political Studies   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Mon, 05 Sep 2011, 16:48:25 EST Mon, 05 Sep 2011, 17:01:21 EST Tue, 06 Sep 2011, 15:57:44 EST Tue, 06 Sep 2011, 16:02:38 EST Tue, 06 Sep 2011, 16:03:37 EST Tue, 06 Sep 2011, 16:04:51 EST Wed, 07 Sep 2011, 08:41:35 EST Mon, 07 Jul 2014, 08:43:13 EST Mon, 07 Jul 2014, 08:44:12 EST Fri, 05 Sep 2014, 09:57:47 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 1005 Abstract Views, 13 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 05 Sep 2011, 16:48:13 EST by Kylie Koulkoudinas