{"title":"The Need for Nothing: Lacanian Theory and the Sacred","authors":"Carl Waitz, Theresa Clement","doi":"10.1177/00030651231208384","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The revolutionary event of Christianity consisted in Jesus’s direct solicitation of the real in the neighbor-Thing. This event presupposed the background of the Jewish regime of halachic law to the extent that it effected a measured rejection of the prescribed rules governing social life in favor of demanding direct vulnerability to the fellow human being, emphatically including an exposure to the Other’s foreign and threatening potential. This fulfillment of the law in love was unavoidably traumatizing. The teaching of Jesus turns every person we meet into a burning bush. It was this radical exhortation to directly embrace das Ding that prompted Lacan to call Christianity the one true religion, the religion of the real [p. 164].","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651231208384","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"PSYCHIATRY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The revolutionary event of Christianity consisted in Jesus’s direct solicitation of the real in the neighbor-Thing. This event presupposed the background of the Jewish regime of halachic law to the extent that it effected a measured rejection of the prescribed rules governing social life in favor of demanding direct vulnerability to the fellow human being, emphatically including an exposure to the Other’s foreign and threatening potential. This fulfillment of the law in love was unavoidably traumatizing. The teaching of Jesus turns every person we meet into a burning bush. It was this radical exhortation to directly embrace das Ding that prompted Lacan to call Christianity the one true religion, the religion of the real [p. 164].
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The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA) is the preeminent North American psychoanalytic scholarly journal in terms of number of subscriptions, frequency of citation in other scholarly works and the preeminence of its authors. Published bimonthly, this peer-reviewed publication is an invaluable resouce for psychoanalysts, psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals. APsaA member Steven T. Levy, M.D. serves as editor of JAPA. JAPA publishes original articles, research, plenary presentations, panel reports, abstracts, commentaries, editorials and correspondence. In addition, the JAPA Review of Books provides in-depth reviews of recent literature.