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The Ontological Nature Of Theology: On Heidegger's "Phenomenology And Theology", Casey Garrett Spinks
The Ontological Nature Of Theology: On Heidegger's "Phenomenology And Theology", Casey Garrett Spinks
LSU Master's Theses
Following his newfound celebrity upon publication of Being and Time, Martin Heidegger delivered a lecture in 1927 and 1928, titled “Phenomenology and Theology,” where he discussed how his recent groundbreaking work in existential phenomenology relates to Christian theology. Far from offering his philosophy as a method for theology, he instead attempted to utterly separate the two, setting the former as fundamental ontology and the latter as a positive science more akin to history, with the Christian faith as its positive object of study. The lecture was left unpublished until 1969, when Heidegger added an appendix, a piece exemplary of the …
Cathartic Ethics In Psychoanalysis, Dylan Timothy O'Brien
Cathartic Ethics In Psychoanalysis, Dylan Timothy O'Brien
LSU Master's Theses
This thesis examines the complex role of ethics within Psychoanalytic theory, finding not a prescriptive ethics, but a reference to ethics in the cathartic methodology that I argue underpinned Psychoanalytic thought from the very beginning. The introduction provides the reader with the necessary background to the material to be covered. The first chapter examines the neglectful attitude found throughout the foundational writings of Psychoanalytic theory in the work of Sigmund Freud, as well as covering two different methods by which ethics are often reduced, and which Freud successfully avoided. The second chapter seeks the origin of an alternative ethics in …