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Embracing the Void: Rethinking the Origin of the Sacred

By Richard Boothby
Narrated by: Adam Verner
Unabridged — 10 hours, 24 minutes
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By Richard Boothby
Narrated by: Adam Verner
Unabridged — 10 hours, 24 minutes
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A radical reinterpretation of the origin of religion through a psychoanalytic theorization of the unknown



Renowned psychoanalytic philosopher Richard Boothby puts forward a novel theory of religion inspired by Jacques Lacan's theory of das Ding, the disquieting, inaccessible dimension of fellow human beings. This notion of an unfathomable excess, originally encountered in the figure of the mother, led Lacan to break with Freud's formulation of the Oedipus complex and underlies Lacan's disti...