Discovering the freedom in finitude

A working journal for psychoanalytic theory and religious living

Entering the third year of Samsara Diagnostics

This year will provide new opportunities for us to think and learn together. Here are the key components of Samsara Diagnostics on the horizon for 2025...

Love

Fear or Love?

If we have received perfect love from God, how can we remain fearful? Has not fear been cast out? When we act from love, we give to others the power to no longer be fearful, for they have received the type of love which casts out fear.

Theology

When the Pope anathematized the teachings of St. Augustine

How did the crypto-Catholic Jacques Lacan give us the Calvinist Slavoj Žižek? And could St. Augustine's theology be the key?

Theology

The rich young man in Jesus' clinic

To be able to concretely love people, we must learn to partner with the mystery of change, to summon its appearance, come what may, and to diligently dance whichever conjuring ritual we happen to have stumbled upon ourselves.