Peter Kline is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at St Francis College, University of Divinity. He received his PhD from Vanderbilt University as part of their Theology and Practice program, and his first book is titled Passion for Nothing: Kierkegaard’s Apophatic Theology (Fortress Press, 2017). Peter’s current research is at the intersections of psychoanalysis and religion. He is currently working on a monograph with the provisional title Infinite Seduction: Religion and the Sexual Unconscious, which seeks to offer a psychoanalytic account of religious subjectivity in conversation with Jean Laplanche. The research aims to use Laplanche’s “general theory of seduction” as a framework to explore sexuality, alterity, and trauma in the construction and deconstruction of theological meaning. The core thesis of the book is that religion (its practices and theories) variously stages and works on “the originary relation to the enigma of the other” (Laplanche). Rather than simply explain religion by way of psychoanalysis, the book will venture a theology of the unconscious that thinks God under the name “infinite seduction.”
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