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The Resource Teresa my love : an imagined life of the saint of Avila, Julia Kristeva ; translated by Lorna Scott Fox, (electronic resource)

Teresa my love : an imagined life of the saint of Avila, Julia Kristeva ; translated by Lorna Scott Fox, (electronic resource)

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Mixing fiction, history, psychoanalysis, and personal fantasy, Teresa, My Love follows 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, Kristeva's probing alterego, 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
Language
  • eng
  • fre
  • eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource.
Note
  • This is an Overdrive title
  • Translation of : Thérèse mon amour : récit : Saint Thérèse d'Avila ; [Paris] : Fayard, ©2008
  • Description based upon print version of record
Contents
  • 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"
  • Part 1:
  • 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
  • The Nothingness of All Things
  • 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"
  • 1. Present by Default
  • 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
  • 2. Mystical Seduction
  • 3. Dreaming, Music, Ocean
  • 4. Homo Viator
  • Part 2:
  • Understanding Through Fiction
Isbn
9780231520461
Link
http://calgary.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=CF30764D-BCEA-4B88-9AA4-72F051B7CB5A
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Teresa my love : an imagined life of the saint of Avila
Title
Teresa my love
Title remainder
an imagined life of the saint of Avila
Statement of responsibility
Julia Kristeva ; translated by Lorna Scott Fox
Creator
Contributor
Author
Translator
Subject
Genre
Language
  • eng
  • fre
  • eng
Summary
Mixing fiction, history, psychoanalysis, and personal fantasy, Teresa, My Love follows 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, Kristeva's probing alterego, 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
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1941-
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Kristeva, Julia
Dewey number
  • 282.092
  • B
Index
no index present
LC call number
BX4700.T4
LC item number
K7513 2014
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
dictionaries
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
Fox, Lorna Scott
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  • Teresa
  • Christian saints
  • RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic
Label
Teresa my love : an imagined life of the saint of Avila, Julia Kristeva ; translated by Lorna Scott Fox, (electronic resource)
Link
http://calgary.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=CF30764D-BCEA-4B88-9AA4-72F051B7CB5A
Instantiates
Publication
Note
  • This is an Overdrive title
  • Translation of : Thérèse mon amour : récit : Saint Thérèse d'Avila ; [Paris] : Fayard, ©2008
  • Description based upon print version of record
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Color
multicolored
Contents
  • 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"
  • Part 1:
  • 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
  • The Nothingness of All Things
  • 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"
  • 1. Present by Default
  • 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
  • 2. Mystical Seduction
  • 3. Dreaming, Music, Ocean
  • 4. Homo Viator
  • Part 2:
  • Understanding Through Fiction
Control code
ocn893332664
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource.
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780231520461
Level of compression
unknown
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
Stock number
CF30764D-BCEA-4B88-9AA4-72F051B7CB5A
System control number
(OCoLC)893332664
Label
Teresa my love : an imagined life of the saint of Avila, Julia Kristeva ; translated by Lorna Scott Fox, (electronic resource)
Link
http://calgary.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=CF30764D-BCEA-4B88-9AA4-72F051B7CB5A
Publication
Note
  • This is an Overdrive title
  • Translation of : Thérèse mon amour : récit : Saint Thérèse d'Avila ; [Paris] : Fayard, ©2008
  • Description based upon print version of record
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Color
multicolored
Contents
  • 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"
  • Part 1:
  • 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
  • The Nothingness of All Things
  • 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"
  • 1. Present by Default
  • 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
  • 2. Mystical Seduction
  • 3. Dreaming, Music, Ocean
  • 4. Homo Viator
  • Part 2:
  • Understanding Through Fiction
Control code
ocn893332664
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource.
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780231520461
Level of compression
unknown
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
Stock number
CF30764D-BCEA-4B88-9AA4-72F051B7CB5A
System control number
(OCoLC)893332664

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