Teresa, My Love : : An Imagined Life of the Saint of Avila /

Teresa, My Love : : An Imagined Life of the Saint of Avila / / Julia Kristeva.

Mixing fiction, history, psychoanalysis, and personal fantasy, Teresa, My Love turns a past world into a modern marvel, following Sylvia Leclercq, a French psychoanalyst, academic, and incurable insomniac, as she falls for the sixteenth-century Saint Teresa of Avila and becomes consumed with chartin...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Kristeva, Julia,
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Scott Fox, Lorna.
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations and Chronology
  • Part 1. The Nothingness of All Things
  • Chapter 1. Present by Default
  • Chapter 2. Mystical Seduction
  • Chapter 3. Dreaming, Music, Ocean
  • Chapter 4. Homo viator
  • Part 2. Understanding Through Fiction
  • Chapter 5. Prayer, Writing, Politics
  • Chapter 6. How to Write Sensible Experience, or, of Water as the Fiction of Touch
  • Chapter 7. The Imaginary of an Unfindable Sense Curled into a God Findable in Me
  • Part 3. The Wanderer
  • Chapter 8. Everything So Constrained Me
  • Chapter 9. Her Lovesickness
  • Chapter 10. The Ideal Father and the Host
  • Part 4. Extreme Letters, Extremes of Being
  • Chapter 11. Bombs and Ramparts
  • Chapter 12. "Cristo como hombre"
  • Chapter 13. Image, Vision, and Rapture
  • Chapter 14. "The soul isn't in possession of its senses, but it rejoices"
  • Chapter 15. A Clinical Lucidity
  • Chapter 16. The Minx and the Sage
  • Chapter 17. Better to Hide . . . ?
  • Chapter 18. ". . . or 'to do what lies within my power'"?
  • Chapter 19. From Hell to Foundation
  • Part 5. From Ecstasy to Action
  • Chapter 20. The Great Tide
  • Chapter 21. Saint Joseph, the Virgin Mary, and His Majesty
  • Chapter 22. The Maternal Vocation
  • Chapter 23. Constituting Time
  • Chapter 24. Tutti a Cavallo
  • Part 6. Foundation- Persecution
  • Chapter 25. The Mystic and the Jester
  • Chapter 26. A Father Is Beaten to Death
  • Chapter 27. A Runaway Girl
  • Chapter 28. "Give me trials, Lord ; give me persecutions"
  • Chapter 29. "With the ears of the soul"
  • Part 7. Dialogues from Beyond the Grave
  • Chapter 30. Act 1. Her Women
  • Chapter 31. Act 2. Her Eliseus
  • Chapter 32. Act 3. Her "Little Seneca"
  • Chapter 33. Act 4. The Analyst's Farewell
  • Part 8. Postscript
  • Chapter 34. Letter to Denis Diderot on the Infinitesimal Subversion of a Nun
  • Notes
  • Sources

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