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SENSIBLE ECSTASY RELIGION AND POSTMODERNISM AserieseditedbyMarkC.Taylor RECENT BOOKS IN THE SERIES EllenT.Armour,Deconstruction,FeministTheology,andtheProblemof Difference,1999 ThomasA.Carlson,Indiscretion:FinitudeandtheNamingofGod,1999 MarkC.Taylor,AboutReligion:EconomiesofFaithinVirtualCulture,1999 EdithWyschogrod,AnEthicsofRemembering:History,Heterology, andtheNamelessOthers,1998 MarkC.Taylor,Hiding,1997 JonathanBoyarin,ThinkinginJewish,1996 JacquesDerrida,ArchiveFever:AFreudianImpression,1996 WilliamFranke,Dante’sInterpretiveJourney,1996 SENSIBLE ECSTASY MYSTICISM, SEXUAL DIFFERENCE, AND THE DEMANDS OF HISTORY AMY HOLLYWOOD TheUniversityofChicagoPress ChicagoandLondon AMY HOLLYWOOD isassociateprofessorofreligionatDartmouth College.SheistheauthorofTheSoulasVirginWife:MechthildofMagdeburg, MargueritePorete,andMeisterEckhart(NotreDame,1995),whichwonthe InternationalCongressonMedievalStudies’OttoGründlerPrizeforthe bestbookinmedievalstudies. TheUniversityofChicagoPress,Chicago60637 TheUniversityofChicagoPress,Ltd.,London ©2002byTheUniversityofChicago Allrightsreserved.Published2002 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica 11100908070605040302 12345 ISBN:0–226–34951–9(cloth) ISBN:0–226–34952–7(paper) LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Hollywood,AmyM.,1963– Sensibleecstasy:mysticism,sexualdifference,andthedemandsof history/AmyHollywood. p.cm.—(Religionandpostmodernism) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN0-226-34951-9(cloth:alk.paper)—ISBN0-226-34952-7 (paper:alk.paper) 1.Mysticism—Psychology—History. 2.Womenmystics— Psychology—History. 3.Philosophy,French—20thcentury. 4.Psychoanalysisandreligion—France—History—20thcentury. I.Title. II.Series. BV5083.H552002 248.2'2'09—dc21 2001037603 (cid:1)(cid:1)Thepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirements oftheAmericanNationalStandardforInformation Sciences—Permanence ofPaperforPrintedLibraryMaterials,ANSIZ39.48–1992. FOR REED ............................................................................. Conceivedinthissense,Historyiswhathurts,itiswhatrefuses desireandsetsinexorablelimitstoindividualaswellascollective praxis,whichits“ruses”turnintogrislyandironicreversalsoftheir overtintentions.ButthisHistorycanbeapprehendedonlythrough itseffects,andneverdirectlyassomereifiedforce.Thisisindeed theultimatesenseinwhichHistoryasgroundanduntranscendable horizonneedsnoparticulartheoreticaljustification:wemaybesure thatitsalienatingnecessitieswillnotforgetus,howevermuchwe mightprefertoignorethem. FREDRIC JAMESON,ThePoliticalUnconscious Itisthedreamofthebody—toknowaplacebodilyandsayso.Totakewordsintoand outofitself.Tohavewordsassumebodilyshape,salamanderormilk,itdoesn’tmatter.To inhabitashore,afabulousbodyofwater,debris,insectsdrilledinthesand. Whereintheworldcanthebodysay,Iaminmyelement? Thebodystripstoitsflesh,andflame,anddives.Whenairgivesout, andbluesandgreenssimplifyintodark,lipsopenthewaylipsopenforkisses. Butthebody,morefullydesirous,recalcitrantintheextreme,says, eventhere,No,thisisnottheworldIdreamedof.Thisisnottheworld. JANET KAUFFMAN,TheBodyinFourParts Idon’tknowifinthiswayIexpresshumanhelplessness—ormyown. GEORGES BATAILLE,OnNietzsche CONTENTS Acknowledgments xi ListofAbbreviations xiii Introduction 1 ....................................................................................... 1 GEORGES BATAILLE, MYSTIQUE INTRODUCTION: ‘‘THE PHILOSOPHER—SARTRE—AND ME’’ 25 1 TheScandaloftheReal 36 2 Mysticism,Trauma,andCatastropheinAngelaofFoligno’sBook andBataille’sAtheologicalSumma 60 3 FromImagetoText:Photography,Writing,andCommunication 88 ....................................................................................... 2 (EN)GENDERING MYSTICISM INTRODUCTION: FROM WOUNDEDNESS TO CASTRATION; OR, ON THE GENDER OF MYSTICISM 113 4 “Mysticismistempting”:SimonedeBeauvoironMysticism, Metaphysics,andSexualDifference 120 5 JacquesLacan,Encore:FeminineJouissance,theReal, andtheGoalofPsychoanalysis 146 ....................................................................................... 3 FEMINISM, MYSTICISM, AND BELIEF INTRODUCTION: FEMINISM AND PSYCHOANALYSIS IN FRANCE 173 6 FromLacktoFluidity:LuceIrigaray,LaMystérique 187 7 SexualDifferenceandtheProblemofBelief 211 8 VentriloquizingHysteria:Fetishism,Trauma, andSexualDifference 236 Conclusion 274 Notes 279 Index 359

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