Truth as Final Cause: Eschatology and Hope in Lacan and Przywara
Truth is a locus of guilt for the Christian, according to Jacques Lacan. The religious person, he argues, punitively defers truth eschatologically. Yet Lacan's own view dissolves eschatological deferral to the world, as the "Real". The metaphysics of Erich Przywara SJ helps highlight...
| Published in: | European journal for philosophy of religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Innsbruck in cooperation with the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham
[2019]
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European journal for philosophy of religion
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Przywara, Erich 1889-1972
/ Lacan, Jacques 1901-1981
/ Hope
/ Truth
/ Eschatology
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism CB Christian life; spirituality VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Analogia Entis
B Metaphysics B Philosophical Theology B Voluntarism B theopanism B Eschatology B Immanence B Rationalism B Pantheism B Jacques Lacan B Psychoanalysis B Transcendence B Analogy B Truth B Erich Przywara |
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| Summary: | Truth is a locus of guilt for the Christian, according to Jacques Lacan. The religious person, he argues, punitively defers truth eschatologically. Yet Lacan's own view dissolves eschatological deferral to the world, as the "Real". The metaphysics of Erich Przywara SJ helps highlight that this mirrors Lacan's view of the religious person. Przywara's Christian metaphysics and Lacanian psychoanalysis converge on the immanence of truth to history. But Przywaran analogy corrects Lacan's position on the religious person, which by implication calls for an adjustment to Lacan's worldview. In the final analysis, Lacan's dialectical nihilism should yield to a Christian's hopeful relation to the truth. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: European journal for philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.24204/ejpr.v11i3.2976 |