ABSTRACT
Grace is one of the attributes of the Lord, who is 'compassionate and gracious'. His grace fills the earth, embracing even undeserving criminals. That is to say, grace is exerted first and foremost by the Other—it is divine love, which is not associated with desire or lack, It can also be understood as Spinoza's Amor Intellectualis Dei—namely, Love that is linked to knowledge. True grace is to recognize their castration. Grace is the ethics of the truth: death's grace to the living, truth's link to the physical. Physical castration that occurs within the body of the drive is as necessary as castration by language. The element of the psyche is truth—"for the blood is the soul". Truth is gracious when it is revealed before us—the truth of castration, in body and language. Thus it also introduces the symbolic possibility of the One.
