Understanding Through Fiction

A Selection from Teresa, My Love: An Imagined Life of the Saint of Avila

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Fiction & Literature, Historical, Biography & Memoir
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Author: Julia Kristeva ISBN: 9780231538992
Publisher: Columbia University Press Publication: September 2, 2014
Imprint: Columbia University Press Language: English
Author: Julia Kristeva
ISBN: 9780231538992
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication: September 2, 2014
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Language: English

Born in 1515, Teresa of Avila survived 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 Julia Kristeva explores as it was expressed in Teresa's writing. 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. Through her dazzlingly varied formats Kristeva tests the borderlines of atheism and the need for faith, feminism and the need for a benign patriarchy.

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Born in 1515, Teresa of Avila survived 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 Julia Kristeva explores as it was expressed in Teresa's writing. 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. Through her dazzlingly varied formats Kristeva tests the borderlines of atheism and the need for faith, feminism and the need for a benign patriarchy.

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