What is it about?
The aim of this essay is to illuminate the concept of God and the ethics of late medieval Christian mysticism (from Meister Eckhart to Teresa of Avila) from the perspective of Freudian/Lacanian psychoanalysis. This allows us to make the central concerns of mysticism accessible to contemporary secular thought.
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Why is it important?
The article is driven by two intentions: on the one hand, not to misunderstand mysticism as a moral enterprise of self-perfection, and on the other hand, to oppose the contemporary “guiding culture” of enjoyment with an ethics of desire.
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This page is a summary of: God is Unconscious. Of an Other Enjoyment. Psychoanalytical Attempt at an Atheistic Mysticism, Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society, July 2022, Brill Deutschland GmbH,
DOI: 10.30965/23642807-bja10036.
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