Interstices of the sublime: Theology and Psychoanalytic Theory

Interstices of the Sublime: Theology and Psychoanalytic Theory

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183. Spinoza, Ethics, 46.
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185. Gilles Deleuze, Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza, trans. Martin Joughin (New York: Zone Books, 1990), 48-49.
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191. Jacques Lacan, On Feminine Sexuality, The Limits of Love and Knowledge: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XX: Encore 1972-73, ed. Jacques-Alain Miller, trans. Bruce Fink (New York: Norton, 1998), 44.