Mahdi Tourage

Philipp Valentini

Jacques Lacan was fascinated with forms of the "religious" throughout his life, from monotheism, which shaped his account of the signifier, to modern occultism, as he was well acquainted with the writings of figures such as Oskar Goldberg and René Guénon. Lacan also repeatedly turned to non-European religiosities to test the limits of psychoanalytic theory. In his yearly seminars he engaged with traditions such as Kabbalah and Taoism, going beyond the Western Christian, capitalist and postcolonial setting of the French university to search for a possible outside to psychoanalysis. But such a quest ultimately recapitulates Lacan's constant awareness of the desire for a new master, and the still open question regarding the names and meanings that this desire may yield. This anthology of eleven essays, which travel from gnosticism to sufism, from afro-pessimism to post-68 ex-Maoist apocalypticism, investigates these unresolved threads that Lacan left behind. Beneath the exoteric psychoanalytic apparatus of Lacan's thought, there is an esoteric Lacan who remains unexplored.

Esoteric Lacan

Drawing on relevant postmodern theories, and exploring the link between the dynamics of eroticism and esotericism, this book establishes the esoteric significance of the bawdy tales in R?m?’s (d. 1273) Mathnaw?, a masterpiece of medieval Perso-Islamic mystical literature.

Rūmī and the Hermeneutics of Eroticism

Umer O. Thasneem

David Johnston

Qamar-ul Huda

Birgit Krawietz

Livnat Holtzman

Altaf Fatima

Timothy P. Daniels

Anita Mir

Muhamad S. Olimat

Mohamed El-Tahir El-Mesawi

Seyed Mahdi Sajjadi

Amr G. E. Sabet

Doug Kiel

Sajjad H. Rizvi

Efrat E. Aviv

Minoo Derayeh

Naama Ben-Ami

Syed Asim Ali

Alyson E. Jones

Junaid S. Ahmad

The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS) is a double blind peer-reviewed and interdisciplinary journal that publishes a wide variety of scholarly research on all facets of Islam and the Muslim world: anthropology, economics, history, philosophy and meta-physics, politics, psychology, religious law, and traditional Islam. Submissions are subject to a blind peer review process.

American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 25:2

Drawing on relevant postmodern theories, and exploring the link between the dynamics of eroticism and esotericism, this book establishes the esoteric significance of the bawdy tales in R?m?'s (d. 1273) "Mathnaw?," a masterpiece of medieval Perso-Islamic mystical literature.

Mahdi Tourage

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