Mark Gerard Murphy: The Direction of Desire

Cover: 9783031331060 | The Direction of Desire | Mark Gerard Murphy | Buch | xviii | Englisch

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Beschreibung

This book examines Lacanian psychoanalysis and Christian mystical theology demonstrating the former¿s potential for reinvigorating spiritual direction. The author outlines how current methods of spiritual direction become saturated with self-help psycho-pop methodologies, and that desire has therefore been foreclosed in these practices. He suggests that the root of this is a focus on ¿positive affective experientialism¿, which means spiritual direction must focus on emotional wholeness, healing and positivity. Finally, he argues that a new dialogue between John of the Cross (a mystic whose writings on spiritual direction formulate part of the core of the Catholic spiritual tradition) and Jacques Lacan can open the way for a spiritual direction beyond the confines of experientialism. The book concludes that we can only escape the experiential commodification of spiritual direction by critiquing the drive to experience in and of itself. This novel work will appeal in particular to students and scholars of psychoanalysis, religion, philosophy and critical theory.

Über den Autor

Mark Gerard Murphy is an editor for the political journal and blog Taiwan Insight and a Lecturer at St Mary's University, Scotland, Gillis Centre, where he convenes courses on ethics, philosophy, and mystical theology and spirituality. His research interests include the relationship between psychoanalysis and mystical theology. He has published in the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory and the European Journal of Psychoanalysis.

Zusammenfassung

Presents a Juanist-Lacanian intervention in the modern practice of spiritual direction

Argues that certain forms of spiritual direction have become therapeutic in their aims

Demonstrates the potential of Lacanian psychoanalysis to reinvigorate spiritual direction

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- Part I The Loss Of Mystical Desire In Christian Spiritual Direction.- 2. The Shift In Spiritual Direction.- 3. Desire In Pre-Modern Spiritual Direction.- Part II Recovering Mystical Desire In Spiritual Direction: A Juanist-Lacanian Approach.- 4. Lacan's Conception Of Psychoanalysis.- 5. Lacan And Spiritual Direction.- 6. The Mystical Speech Of Lacan.- 7. Listening And Speaking In Juanist-Lacanian Spiritual Direction.- 8. Conclusion.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Fachbereich:	Psychoanalyse
Genre:	Geisteswissenschaften , Kunst , Musik , Psychologie
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	xviii 315 S. 22 s/w Illustr. 315 p. 22 illus.
ISBN-13:	9783031331060
ISBN-10:	3031331060
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Murphy, Mark Gerard
Hersteller:	Springer Nature Switzerland Springer International Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	216 x 153 x 23 mm
Von/Mit:	Mark Gerard Murphy
Erscheinungsdatum:	26.09.2023
Gewicht:	0,548 kg

Artikel-ID: 126815038