The art of faith

Abstract

In this review of Alexandre Chernoglazov's book "Lacan. An Invitation to Reality" Nina Savchenkova attempts to reconstruct the hermeneutic techniques used by Chernoglazov and to demonstrate that, for the latter author, religious and aesthetic experience is one of the most important sources from which contemporary psychoanalytic discourse is formed. At the same time, the faith in metaphors, the care of metaphors, the making of metaphors are understood as a totality of techniques and practices of subjectivation. Revendication of desire and openness of existence as revealed in the experience of faith are regarded by Chernoglazov as an ultimately real perspective for the coming-to-be of a subject in the context of contemporary culture.