THE CONSTITUTIVE NEGATIVITY OF THE CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE FOR A CHRISTIANISM OF THE DIS-COINCIDENCE

Abstract

The contemporary transformations of the culture and of the society cause what the psychoanalyst Jean-Pierre Lebrun calls a “crisis of the negativity”. A negativity that we find, however, in the foundation of the Christian dispositive, as we shall see with Michel de Certeau and Jean-Luc Nancy, and in the foundation of what we will call process of humanization. Faced with this crisis of negativity, which also translates into a series of transformations in the relations of the subject with the religion, we will see how a theological point of view grounded in the dis-coincidence (François Jullien) can be a credible and fecund contribution to regenerate the today threatened process of humanization.