- Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States
Peter Klapes
Boston College, Philosphy, Department Member
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The law and language are inextricably connected. The human individual’s first encounter with language—and, thus, the law—occurs early in life, through what the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud calls the Oedipus Complex. It seems that the law,... more
The law and language are inextricably connected. The human individual’s first encounter with language—and, thus, the law—occurs early in life, through what the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud calls the Oedipus Complex. It seems that the law, as we colloquially understand the term, bears roots in the human individual’s experience of the Oedipus Complex. In what follows, I argue that the law not only bears Oedipal origins, but also that it seems the law is the only possible way that we might establish relations with others
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T he Biblical figure of Jesus Christ, it would seem, is an embodiment of exactly the sort of fusion—of Apollo and Dionysius; of the rational and the irrational—that Friedrich Nietzsche admired in Greek tragedy. As both Paul’s “folly to... more
T he Biblical figure of Jesus Christ, it would seem, is an embodiment of exactly the sort of fusion—of Apollo and Dionysius; of the rational and the irrational—that Friedrich Nietzsche admired in Greek tragedy. As both Paul’s “folly to philosophers” and John’s “Logos” (Λόγος), Christ symbolizes the humanization—and thus rationalization— of the mystery of God, just as much as he magnifies the contradictory and absurd nature of the world and of human life. Furthermore, on the cross, Christ’s kenotic, or emptying act, can be read as a facilitation of a Nietzschean annihilation of being, which becomes substituted by the notion of becoming.