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

59. Martin Heidegger, “What Is Metaphysics?” Basic Writings, rev. and expanded ed., ed. David Farrell Krell (London: Routledge, 1993), 108.

60. Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, trans. J. M. D. Meiklejohn, part second, I, 3, Canon of Pure Reason (1781; London: Dent/Everyman’s Library, 1945), 458–9.

3. DREAMING, MUSIC, OCEAN

1. Koran, Sura LVII.

2. Alfred Rosenberg:1893–1946. See The Myth of the Twentieth Century, trans. V. Biro (1931; Torrance, Calif.: Noontide, 1983).

3. Marcel Duchamp: 1887–1968.

4. David Bakan, Sigmund Freud and the Jewish Mystical Tradition (New York: Dover, 2005).

5. Letter to R. Rolland, July 20, 1929, in Ernst L. Freud, ed., Letters of Sigmund Freud, 1873–1939 (London: Hogarth, 1970), 389.

6. Wilhelm Fliess: 1858–1928.

7. Letter to W. Fliess, in Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, trans. and ed., The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887–1904 (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap, 1985), 398.

8. Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents, trans. David McLintock (London: Penguin, 2002), 10.

9. Letter from Romain Rolland to Freud, December 5, 1927, in Francis Doré and Marie-Laurie Prévost, eds., Selected Letters of Romain Rolland (New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts and Oxford University Press, 1990), 87.

10. “Black mud”: Quoted in Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, and Reflections, Waukegan: Fontana, 1992, p. 150.

11. Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, trans. J. Strachey (London: Pelican, 1977), 60.

12. Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion, trans. J. A. Underwood and Shaun Whiteside (London: Penguin, 2005), 71–2.

13. William McGuire, ed. The Freud/Jung Letters, trans. Ralph Manheim (London: Picador, 1979), 146.

14. Letter to Anon., in Letters of Sigmund Freud, 1873–1939, 435.

15. Cf. Paul-Laurent Assoun, “Résurgences et dérives de la mystique,” in Nouvelle revue de psychanalyse, no. 22 (Fall 1980).

16. Freud, New Introductory Lectures, 112.

4. HOMO VIATOR

1. See Marcelle Auclair, Thérèse d’Avila, Œuvres complètes, 2 vols. (Paris: Desclée de Brouwer, 1964); Thérèse d’Avila, Œuvres complètes, (Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 1995).

2. Meister Eckhart, The Complete Mystical Works of Meister Eckhart, trans. and ed. Maurice O’C. Walshe (New York: Crossroad, 2009), 422, 424.

3. “Yearning” or “craving” are attempts to render the Freudian term Sehnsucht: “nostalgia,” “longing,” “ardent desire,” not necessarily addressing the past, but rather the absence of the love object.

4. Life, 3:5, CW 1:63.

5. Jean Baruzi, Saint Jean de la Croix (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1924; Éditions Salvator, 1999).

6. Teresa of Avila, Poems, “Aspirations Toward Eternal Life,” CW 3:375.

7. Testimonies, 58:4, CW 1:418.

8. VI D, 9:2, CW 2:411–12.

9. Letter 177, to don Lorenzo de Cepeda, January 17, 1577, CL 1:476–77.

5. PRAYER, WRITING, POLITICS

1. Life, 10:7, CW 1:108.

2. Soliloquies, 15:3, CW 1:459.

3. Ibid., 17:2, CW 1:461.

4. Letter 219, to Gaspar de Salazar, December 7, 1577, CL 1:583.

5. Theopathy: from “pathon ta theia” (cf. Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Divine Names 2 n, 9), or “to suffer God” as the supreme perfection.

6. Chrétien de Troyes: poet and troubadour, late twelfth century.

7. Life, 11:5, CW 1:112.

8. Life, 10:7, CW 1:108.

9. V D, 2:7, 2:343.

10. Donald W. Winnicott, “Mind and Its Relation to the Psyche-Soma” (1949), in Collected Papers, Through Paediatrics to Psycho-Analysis, (London: Tavistock, 1958), 243–54.

11. Life, 20:9 CW 1:176.

12. Testimonies, 3:1, CW 1:382.

13. Letter 24, to don Lorenzo de Cepeda, January 17, 1570, CL 1:83.

14. Cf. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ, trans. H. L. Mencken (1920; Tucson: Sharp, 1999).

15. Life, 20:9–10, CW 1:176.

16. Testimonies, 3:5–6, CW 1:383.

17. “Mantener la tela”: “It was the custom at the joust for one group of supporters to hold up a banner bearing the colors of the group’s favorite knight.” Notes to the Life, CW, 1:474. Cf. M. Alonso, Enciclopedia del idioma (Madrid: Aguilar, 1968), 3: 3909.

18. Life, 18:10–13, CW 1:161–2.

19. Life, 18:14, CW 1:163.