Jenseits des Absurden: Theologie als Doing Reason

In one of his most disturbing novels, The Unnamable, Beckett gives voice to what could be defined as the absurdity of existence in a long monologue.The ego-narrator, with many names, crosses the heartrending landscape of the senseless, yet remains faithful to the need to talk and write about it.This rest of faith in language and art is transformed into a blasphemous cry and harsh satire towards an absent God, incapable of saving human beings from pain and despair.This article aims to investigate this irreverent trust that remains and must be written, showing its paradoxically religious truth.Starting from Seminar VII on the ethics of psychoanalysis by Lacan, the intention is to show that religion should not be interpreted only as an escape from the world, a remedy for anxiety or a way to avoid the Real, but also as respect for the absurd.Considering the categories of incarnation, crucifixion, empty tomb and resurrection, which represent the absurdity of Christianity, a faith emerges that implies an encounter with an 'out-of-sense' that cannot be simply tamed or rationalised. Key-WordsBeckett, Lacan, Adorno, Christianity, Blasphemy, Respect for the absurd, Consolation, Truth Beckett does not believe in God, though he seems to imply that God has committed an unforgivable sin by not existing