The Pleasures of Unpleasure: Jacques Lacan and the Atheism Beyond the “Death of God”
- Authors
- Mathews, Peter D.
- Issue Date
- Mar-2022
- Publisher
- Zalozba ZRC
- Keywords
- Lacan; atheism; reality principle; unpleasure; tragedy; Antigone
- Citation
- Filozofski Vestnik, v.43, no.3, pp.179 - 199
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- Journal Title
- Filozofski Vestnik
- Volume
- 43
- Number
- 3
- Start Page
- 179
- End Page
- 199
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hanyang/handle/2021.sw.hanyang/191013
- DOI
- 10.3986/FV.43.3.08
- ISSN
- 0353-4510
- Abstract
- Although the desire to be free from God springs from humanity’s wish to enjoy pleasure without restraint, Lacan observes that humans remain neurotic and unhappy. That is because the prevailing “dead of God” form of atheism relies on the denial of a father/god, a negation that inadvertently replicates the logic of religion. Lacan, by contrast, grounds his atheism in a theory of pleasure that recognizes the role of “unpleasure” in breaking the tedium of easy, unlimited gratification. Turning to Greek tragedy, Lacan shows how the ancient world used the gods as creators of “unpleasure” to generate human jouissance. The figure of Antigone, in particular, shows how the divine function can fulfill “the true formula of atheism,” which is not “God is dead,” but rather, Lacan affirms, that “God is unconscious.”
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