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

includes index and biblioraphy

1. The Nothingness of All things Present by default .............3 Mystical Seduction ..........29 Dreaming, music, Ocean .......51 Homo viator .........61 2. Understanding through fiction Prayer writing politics .............77 How to write sensible experience, or of Water as the fiction of touch ............87 The imaginary of an Unfindable sense curled into a god Findable in Me ............105 3. The wanderer Everything so constrained me .......121 Her Lovesickness......151 The Ideal Father and the Host .........171 4, Extreme Letters extremes of Being Bombs and ramparts............189 Cristo como bombre.....203 Image, vision, and rapture .............207 The soul isn`t possession of its senses, but it rejoices .....215 A clinical lucidity ...........225 The minx and the sage .........233 Better to hide ..............239 Or to do what lies within my power ............249 From hell to foundation ...........261 5. From Ecstasy to acton The great tide ..........269 Saint joseph,The virgin mary, and his majesty ......277 The maternal vocation .......289 Constituting time ........313 Tutti a cavallo ..........331 6. Foundation persecution The mystic and the jester ........377 A father is beaten to death ............387 A runaway girl......407 Give me trials, lord: give me persecutions ...........421 With the ears of the soul ..........437 7. Dialogues from beyond the grave Act I. Her women .........453 Act II her eliseus ............493 Act III little seneca ..............517 Act IV the analyst`s Farewell .............547 8. Postscipt Letter to denis diderot on the Infinistesimal Subversion of a Nun .................567