Marcus Pound is a lecturer at the University of Bristol. He has published numerous articles across the Heythrop Journal, Reviews in Theology and Religion and the Transcendent Philosophy Journal.
“Marcus Pound’s first book is the most important sustained
reflection on the relation of theology and psychoanalysis to date.
His approach is admirably focused, since it compares the ideas of
the theological founder of the complex motivational psychology –
Søren Kierkegaard – with those of the most sophisticated secular
psychoanalytical theorists – Jacques Lacan. In doing so Pound
offers, in a short compass, both a psychological deepening of
theological orthodoxy and a theological critique of psychoanalysis
as such. Future engagement with this area must begin with this
lucid, subtle and brilliant treatise.” John Milbank
The subtitle of Pound's book could have been 'Lacan with
Kierkegaard'. It stages an extraordinary dialogue between the two
thinkers, demonstrating the Kierkegaardian resonances of the key
Lacanian concepts. From now on, we know that the Freudian notion of
'trauma', its sexual references notwithst anding, belongs to the
domain of the divine. The book is a true event: after reading it,
neither Kierkegaard nor Lacan will remain the same in our
theoretical imaginary. You can ignore this book... if you want to
remain a happy idiot." - Slavoj Žižek
"The vitality of Christian theology today, its creativity, its
imaginative and scholarly engagement, are nowhere more evident than
in this book. Pound's presentation of an interface between
psychology and doctrine is as bold as it is original. Kierkegaard
meets Lacan, trauma is related to liturgy and therapy to
sacramentalism - all under the aegis of Aquinas! This is
contemporary theology at its best - exploring new terrains and
forging distinctive relations between onetime strangers." - Graham
Ward
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