Politics, Psychoanalysis, and Religiont in the Age of Terror by Bruno Bosteels

Obviously, I cannot discuss in detail all the speculative contributions of Rozitchner's La Cosa y la Cruz. Instead, I would like to raise three overarching questions about his work that concern the links-or, if necessary, the delinking-between politics, religion, and philosophy as inflected by psychoanalysis.

In one of the rare responses to Rozitchner's work published during his life, his long-time friend and fellow leftist political thinker Emilio de Ípola once accused him of presenting un pensamiento develador-that is, a revelatory kind of thinking aimed at unveiling or unmasking our ideological fantasies and illusions in the school of the so-called "hermeneutics of suspicion" of Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud. "The presupposition, let us call it ontological, that puts in motion the critical machine affirms simply that nothing is what it shows, seems, or says itself to be. "55 It is true that Rozitchner often claims to "expose," "uncover," or "lay bare" the innermost kernel of political power and submission which is said to be "concealed," "disavowed" or "covered-up. " In this regard, he is perhaps not so different from someone like Žižek, who typically exposes the obscene scenarios of enjoyment that undergird our noble public life-even though Žižek's undying Lacanianism would be condemned by Rozitchner, who never fails to proclaim his loyalty to Freud in ways very different from Lacan's own proposed return to Freud. Here is one such instance of a methodological self-description in Rozitchner's work that might seem to justify de Ípola's objection: