The Animal and the Divine: The Alterity that I Am

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Animal and the Divine: The Alterity that I Am

Original language description

Even a quick look at the history of religions leaves one impressed with how often the animal has been taken as a manifestation of the sacred. Another feature, frequently found, is the emphasis on the transcendence of the divine. Its radical alterity is such that we cannot directly encounter it. What is the alterity, the transcendence that conjoins these features? In this article, I argue that this alterity is that of the unconscious. Two types of impulses spring from it: impulses that we symbolically project as the Eros rooted in our animal, embodied existence and impulses that we project as springing from the divine. The only way that we can form a stable representation of ourselves is through the intertwining of both of them. Such an intertwining can be accounted for by means of Merleau-Ponty&apos;s model of reversibility and mutual disclosure.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Studia Phaenomenologica

ISSN

1582-5647

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Volume of the periodical

17

Issue of the periodical within the volume

neuvedeno

Country of publishing house

RO - ROMANIA

Number of pages

24

Pages from-to

177-200

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85040098242