Anxiety in the Era of Uncertainty
An Interdisciplinary Reading of Lacan’s Seminars
- Publisher: Pickwick Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2025
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Publisher's Description
The burgeoning field of Lacan studies critiques that most discourses have been formed in dominant cultures, considering the impacts of Western imperialism on the structure of non-Western or postcolonial human subjects. This groundbreaking work invites readers to read Jacques Lacan's Seminars in an interdisciplinary way with scholars from diverse backgrounds. Readers will see a new picture of anamorphosis emerge with possible transformation while facing the uncanny feeling of anxiety through the global peoples' perspectives.
Endorsements (4)
“Disruption to quality of life caused by war, social inequality, health pandemics, and climate change has continued to pose challenges to humanity. Anxiety in the Era of Uncertainty is a global voice of concern over the contemporary crisis of spirituality. Pioneering research provides great insights from authors of diverse cultural backgrounds on the challenges posed by the current human crisis.”
“Chavoshian and Park offer insights and a refreshing approach to the interdisciplinary study of culture, pastoral ministry, theology, spiritual direction, mysticism, and more. By integrating Lacanian theory with various disciplines, this text offers innovative ways to comprehend intricate concepts, transcend conventional thinking, and address ethical dilemmas. A profoundly prolific anthology, readers will encounter thought-provoking and inspirational ideas. Most importantly, there are profound lessons that can enrich and challenge the exploration of faith in contemporary society.”
“A great example of collaborative scholarship that is not only interdisciplinary but intercultural. The academy needs more books like this that explore the opportunities and limitations of bringing European thinkers into conversation with diverse global contexts and experiences.”
“Anxiety in the Era of Uncertainty by Ali Chavoshian and Jung Eun Sophia Park is a remarkable interdisciplinary and intercultural study distilling contributions from Jacques Lacan’s influential psychoanalytic, cultural, and political ideas to contemporary discussions of postcolonialism, race, gender, and late capitalism in Hong Kong, the U.S., Korea, Iran, China, and Europe. Authors from around the globe (with a strong emphasis on Asia) repristinate Lacan insights on anxiety, uncertainty, Neo-Freudian object-relations theory, intersubjectivity, women's sexuality, and ‘the Real’ (among many others) for a new generation, including people of color and non-western discussions of culture, ministry, theology, biblical studies, social science, and the body. The product of an intensive nine-year international seminar, each author draws challenging new fruits from Lacan’s Seminars, beginning in 1951 post-war France while a member of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society and concluding in 1980, just over two years before the January 1, 1983, U.S. Defense Data Network adoption of the TCP/IP protocol created the internet. Accessible to experts and beginners, this book will challenge every reader!”
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