Theology, Psychoanalysis and Trauma - paperback

Author: Marcus Pound

The Veritas Series brings to market original volumes engaging in critical questions of pressing concern to theologians as well as philosophers, biologists, economists, and representatives of other disciplines. Theology, Psychoanalysis and Trauma ‘is the most important sustained reflection on the relation of Theology and Psychoanalysis to date. Pound’s approach is admirably focussed, since it compares the ideas of the theological founder of complex motivational psychology – Søren Kierkegaard – with those of the most sophisticated secular psychoanalytical theorist – Jacques Lacan. In doing so, Marcus Pound offers, in a short compass, both a psychological deepening of theological orthodoxy and a theological critique of psychoanalysis as such. Further engagement with this area must begin with this lucid, subtle and brilliant treatise.’John Milbank, University of Nottingham