Teresa, my love : an imagined life of the Saint of Avila : a novel

Julia Kristeva is professor of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII and author of many acclaimed works and novels, including The Severed Head: Capital Visions, Hatred and Forgiveness, This Incredible Need to Believe, Murder in Byzantium, Melanie Klein, Hannah Arendt, New Maladies of the Soul, Strangers to Ourselves, and Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. She is the recipient of the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought and the Holberg International Memorial Prize. Lorna Scott Fox is a journalist, critic, translator, and editor currently based in London. She lived in Mexico and Spain from 1986 to 2004, where she was also active as an art critic. Her articles and reviews have appeared in several journals, including the London Review of Books and The Nation. Number of Words in Auth: 2 Formats : EPUB Number of Formats : 1 Has Cover : Yes All Identifiers : uri:ISBN-978-0-231-14960-0 Single Author : Julia Kristeva Original Source : Mirc Undernet New 01 26 Sorted Author by LN, FN: Kristeva, Julia Title Length : 015 Title Parm D : Teresa, My Love Title Parm F : Teresa, My Love Num of Aut : 1 Title Parm B : ( Record ID : 7205 Uncomma Author : Julia Kristeva Title Parm A : Teresa, My Love 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 -- 10. The ideal father and the Host -- -- 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. 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 charting her life. Traveling to Spain, Leclercq, Julia Kristeva's probing alter ego, visits the sites and embodiments of the famous mystic and awakens to her own desire for faith, connection, and rebellion. One of Kristeva's most passionate and transporting works, Teresa, My Love interchanges biography, autobiography, analysis, dramatic dialogue, musical scores, and images of paintings and sculpture to engage the reader in Leclercq's--and Kristeva's--journey. Born in 1515, Teresa of Avila outwitted the Spanish Inquisition and was a key reformer of the Carmelite Order. Her experience of ecstasy, which she intimately described in her writings, released her from her body and led to a complete realization of her consciousness, a state Kristeva explores in relation to present-day political failures, religious fundamentalism, and cultural malaise. Incorporating notes from her own psychoanalytic practice, as well as literary and philosophical references, Kristeva builds a fascinating dual diagnosis of contemporary society and the individual psyche while sharing unprecedented insights into her own character. -- From publisher's website Letos (2015) mineva petsto let od rojstva sv. Terezije Avilske, ene osrednjih duhovnih figur katoliške reformacije 16. stoletja. Romansiran življenjepis Terezije Avilske je v izvirniku francoski roman (Thérèse, mon amour) v Franciji živeče, znamenite Julije Kristeve, filozofinje, feministke, literarne kritičarke, psihoanalitičarke in sociologinje bolgarskega rodu. Kristevo, sicer prepričano ateistko, ki religijo dojema kot iluzijo, a pomembno etapo v izgradnji jaza, je podoba sv. Terezije Avilske, ki si jo je ustvarila skozi njena dela in delovanje, močno prevzela. Roman Kristeve se trdno drži Terezinih besed, ob tem pa interpretira tako čutenja mistikinje kot njeno osebnost. Zanjo je značilno, da je ob izrazito nenavadnem doživljanju ohranjala močno človečnost in sočutnost, trden stik z lastno danostjo ter obenem zunanjo realnostjo, ki jo je po svojih močeh preoblikovala in nanjo občutno dejavno vplivala