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The Real Of Religion And It's Relation To Truth As Cause

Stephen J. Costello

Issue 13 — Summer 1998

69–81

There is nothing doctrinal about our office. We are answerable to no ultimate truth. We are neither for nor against any particular religion.[1] Lacanian psychoanalysis has strong theological overtones. Witness Lacan's concept of the 'name-of-the-father', his epistemological triumvirate of the Real, the Symbolic and the Imaginary orders which remind us of the Trinity. Indeed, in Desire and Its Interpretation[2] he relates the Trinity to the Oedipus complex and its three moments.…

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