Teresa my love : an imagined life of the saint of Avila /
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Author / Creator: | Kristeva, Julia, 1941- author. |
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Uniform title: | Thérèse mon amour. English |
Imprint: | New York : Columbia University Press, [2015] ©2015 |
Description: | 1 online resource (630 pages) : illustrations |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11382849 |
Table of Contents:
- Part 1: The Nothingness of All Things
- 1. Present by Default
- 2. Mystical Seduction
- 3. Dreaming, Music, Ocean
- 4. Homo Viator
- Part 2:
- Understanding Through Fiction
- 5. Prayer, Writing, Politics
- 6. How to Write Sensible Experience, or, of Water as the Fiction of Touch
- 7. The Imaginary of an Unfindable Sense Curled Into a God Findable in Me
- Part 3:
- The Wanderer
- 8. Everything So Constrained Me
- 9. Her Lovesickness
- Part 4: Extreme Letters, Extremes of Being
- 11. Bombs and Ramparts
- 12. "Cristo como hombre"
- 13. Image, Vision, and Rapture
- 14. "The soul isn't in possession of its senses, but it rejoices"
- 15. A Clinical Lucidity
- 16. The Minx and the Sage
- 17. Better to Hide . . .?
- 18. ". . . Or 'to do what lies within my power' "?
- 19. From Hell to Foundation
- Part 5:
- From Ecstasy to Action
- 20. The Great Tide
- 21. Saint Joseph, the Virgin Mary, and His Majesty
- 22. The Maternal Vocation
- 23. Constituting Time
- 24. Tutti a cavallo
- Part 6: Foundation-Persecution
- 25. The Mystic and the Jester
- 26. A Father Is Beaten to Death
- 27. A Runaway Girl
- 28. "Give me trials, Lord; give me persecutions"
- 29. "With the ears of the soul"
- Part 7:
- Dialogues from Beyond the Grave
- 30. Act I. Her Women
- 31. Act II. Her Eliseus
- 32. Act III: Her "Little Seneca"
- 33. Act IV. The Analyst's Farewell
- Part 8:
- Postscript
- 34. Letter to Denis Diderot on the Infinitesimal Subversion of a Nun.