Abstract
This article is an attempt to problematize the commandment of neighbor-love through a comparative reading of Søren Krarup and Jacques Lacan. Inspired by Lacan's essay "Kant avec Sade", the article proposes that Lacan's reflections on the ethics of psychoanalysis illustrate the radicalism and limitations of Krarup's reading of the injunction to love one's neighbor. After a short presentation of Krarup's position the article outlines a number of differences and some similarities between this position and Lacan's position. Against Krarup and with Lacan the article argues that the commandment of neighbor-love is obscure. The last section of the article addresses the question of what it means to be someone's neighbor. Two viewpoints are contrasted: one that implicitly claims that the basis of neighbor-love is that in the end we are all capable of doing good, and another that claims that the basis of neighbor-love is that we are all strangers to ourselves.
| Original language | Danish |
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| Journal | Dansk Teologisk Tidsskrift |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Pages (from-to) | 275-286 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| ISSN | 0105-3191 |
| Publication status | Published - 2012 |