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

9. Colette, The Vagabond, trans. Enid McLeod (London: Secker & Warburg, 1974), 158: “Femelle j’étais et femelle je me retrouve, pour en souffrir et pour en jouir.”

10. Francisco de Osuna: ca. 1492–ca. 1540.

11. Sigmund Freud, The Schreber Case, trans. Andrew Webber (New York: Penguin, 2003).

12. Life, 16:1–6, CW 1:147–50.

13. Michel de Certeau, The Mystic Fable, trans. Michael B. Smith, vol. 1, The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992), 23.

14. Life, 40:8, CW 1:357.

15. Life, 26:5, CW 1:226.

16. Bernardino de Laredo: 1492–1540.

17. Life, 23:15, CW 1:207.

18. Pedro de Alcántara: 1499–1562.

19. John of the Cross, Ascent of Mount Carmel, book 1, part 3, section 1, trans. and ed. E. Allison Peers (Tunbridge Wells, Kent: Burns & Oates, 1983), 21.

20. Council of Trent, 1545–1563.

21. IV D, 1:7–14, CW 2:319–22.

22. IV D, 1:11, CW 2:321.

23. Letter 237, to María de San José, March 28, 1578, CL 2:46.

24. Critique, CW 3:357.

25. Socrates: 460–399 B.C.E.

26. Plato: ca. 428–ca. 347 B.C.E.

27. Michel de Montaigne, The Essays: A Selection, trans. and ed. M. A. Screech (London: Penguin, 2004), book 2:12, 590: “I find it unacceptable that the power of God should be limited in this way by the rules of human language.”

28. René Descartes, Discourse on Method (1637).

29. Arthur Rimbaud: 1854–1891.

30. Baruch Spinoza: 1633–1677.

31. G. W. Leibniz, Discourse on Metaphysics and Related Writings, ed. and trans. R. N. D. Martin and Stuart Brown (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988), 77.

32. Letter from Leibniz to André Morell (1696), translated from French by Lloyd Strickland (2007), www.leibniz-translations.com/morell1696.htm. [It quotes as its source the following: G. W. Leibniz, Sämtliche schriften und briefe series I, ed. Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften, 13:398. This book seems to be in German, with only excerpts translated.] Cf. M. Leroy, Discours de métaphysique et correspondance avec Arnaud de G. W. Leibniz, (Paris: Grua/Presses Universitaires de France, 1948), 103.

33. Cf. J. K. Huysmans, En Route (Sawtry, U.K.: Dedalus, 2002), 221: “the virile soul of a monk.”

34. John of the Cross: 1542–1591.

2. MYSTICAL SEDUCTION

1. Julia Kristeva, “Le bonheur des Béguines,” in Le jardin clos de l’âme. L’imaginaire des religieuses dans les Pays-Bas du Sud depuis le XIII^e siècle, ed. Paul Vanderbroeck (Brussels: Société des expositions, Palais des Beaux-Arts, February — May 1994).

2. See Gershom Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, 3rd ed. (New York: Schocken, 1995); Zohar: The Book of Splendor (New York: Schocken, 1995).

3. See Émile Boutroux, “Le mysticisme,” Bulletin de l’institut général psychologique, 31 (1902); André Lalande, Vocabulaire technique et critique de la philosophie, ed. Félix Alcan (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1926), 496.

4. Jacques Lacan, Écrits, trans. Bruce Fink (New York: Norton, 2006).

5. Denys the Areopagite (or Pseudo-Dionysius), Complete Works, trans. Colm Luibheid and Paul Rorem (Mahwah, N.J.: Paulist, 1987).

6. Plotinus: 204/5–270.

7. Aristotle: 384–322 B.C.E.

8. Exod. 3:1–6.

9. Ezek. 10:1–22.

10. Sefer Yetzirah, short treatise of some 1,600 words, third to twelfth century.

11. Judah Halevi: 1075–1141.

12. Moses Maimonides: 1135–1204.

13. Saadia ben Joseph of Fayum: 882–942. Author of Commentary on Sefer Yetzira, ca. 931.

14. Solomon Ibn Gabirol: 1020–1058.

15. Plato: 428–348 B.C.E.

16. Philo of Alexandria: ca. 10–45 B.C.E.

17. Bahya Ibn Paquda: tenth or eleventh century.

18. Abraham Abulafia: 1240–1291.

19. Moisés de León: second half of the thirteenth century.

20. Cf. André Néher, “La philosophie juive médiévale,” in Histoire de la philosophie, ed. Y. Belaval (Paris: Gallimard, Pléiade Collection, 1969).

21. Le Zohar, trans. Jean de Pauly (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1908); The Zohar, ed. H. Sperling and M. Simon, 5 vols. (London: Soncino, 1949).

22. Cf. Julia Kristeva, Time and Sense: Proust and the Experience of Literature, trans. Ross Guberman (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998), 148–9, 325.

23. Louis Massignon, Al Hallaj: Mystic and Martyr, trans. Herbert Mason (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994); Anne-Marie Schimmel, Mystical Dimensions of Islam (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1978).