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Chiesa emphasizes the continuity underlying apparently incompatible phases of Lacan's examination of the subject, describing Lacan's theory as a consistent philosophical system--but one that is constantly revised and therefore problematic. Chiesa analyzes each old theory of the subject within the framework of a new elaboration and reassesses its fundamental tenets from the perspective of a general psychoanalytic discourse that becomes increasingly complex. From the 1960s on, writes Chiesa, the Lacanian subject amounts to an irreducible lack that must be actively confronted and assumed; this subjectivized lack, Chiesa argues further, offers an escape from the contemporary impasse between the death of the subject alleged by postmodernism and a return to a traditional substantialist notion of the subject. 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They are animate yet non-living.  In God Is Undead, Lorenzo Chiesa and Adrian Johnston contend that true unbelief today sees the divine precisely as exemplifying such undeath.  In God Is Undead, Chiesa and Johnston delve into and deepen the insights of both Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis as regards unbelief.  This analytic perspective reveals that modern atheisms appealing to a scientific worldview as an antidote to orthodox religious faith end up as heterodox theisms of Nature, Reason, Knowledge, or even the Market itself.  They ironically place new gods of their own atop the graves of the traditional gods of old.  They likewise forget the religious influences underlying modern science.  One of the most important and novel contributions of God Is Undead is its gesture of dignifying unbelief as something that is able to contain multitudes.  Far from a unified, homogeneous, and flatly bleak position, irreligiosity can come in many forms whose convergences and divergences contain possibilities for creatively thinking and living differently.  This book shows such variegated non-belief in action.  We have two unbelievers vigorously disagreeing with each other about fundamental ontological matters, thereby bringing to light critical questions going to the very heart of any unbelief whatsoever:  Can an atheism, as thoroughly atheistic, ever believe in or be certain of itself?  What is the role of agnosticism, and specifically of an agnosticism strengthening (rather than contrasting with) atheism, in all this?  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