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The Subject of Religion: Lacan and the Ten Commandments
Julia R. Lupton, University of California, Irvine
Kenneth M. Reinhard, UCLA

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ABSTRACT:
Lacan's references to the Ten Commandments reveal the Decalogue not as a repressive text of negative prohibitions, but rather as a foundational template of subjective relationships to enjoyment (jouissance) that maps the subject's relations to the symbolic order and to the real.

SUGGESTED CITATION:
Julia R. Lupton and Kenneth M. Reinhard, "The Subject of Religion: Lacan and the Ten Commandments" (2003). Diacritics. 33 (2), pp. 71-97. Postprint available free at: http://repositories.cdlib.org/postprints/2555

REQUIRED PUBLISHER STATEMENT:
Reinhard, Kenneth and Julia Reinhard Lupton. The Subject of Religion: Lacan and the Ten Commandments. Diacritics 33:2 (2005), 71-97. © The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced with permission of The John Hopkins University Press.

 
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