Discovering the freedom in finitude

A working journal for psychoanalytic theory and religious living

Every law is founded on a crime

"There are no more cannibals, because we ate the last one yesterday," Zupančič jokes wryly to capture the essential logic of law.

Upcoming seminar: The Art of Exit

I'm excited to announce that I'll be facilitating "The Art of Exit: The Poetry and Politics of Reclusion in medieval Japan" at Incite Seminars on May 4th, 11th, and 18th! Please join us for three Saturdays in May at 10 AM (Pacific) to explore

Theology

An Inconsolable Demand: Lament, Desire, Hope

What if we defined lament not as the mourning of a loss, but the refusal to accept any consolation for that loss?

Deleuze

When liberation isn't liberating

What happens when the injunction to be free has become the inner message of power?

Biographical

Christ in me more than myself

If God loves me for Christ's sake, doesn't it mean that God doesn't really love me? When He looks at me, if all He sees is Christ, then how am I seen?