Publication at Protestant Theological Faculty |
2009
Abstract
This article examines psychoanalytical inspirations in the work of a contemporary French sacramental theologian Louis-Marie Chauvet. First it demonstrates how Jacques Lacan's interpretation of Freud's approach in structuralistic linguistic terms is formative for Chauvet's concepts of a symbol and a symbolic order.
Then it shows where in Chauvet we encounter the distinction between the symbolic and the imaginary coming out of Lacan's theory of an unconscious structured like a language and his theory of development of a subject.