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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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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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Sensible Ecstasy investigates the attraction to excessive forms of mysticism among twentieth-century French intellectuals and demonstrates the work that the figure of the mystic does for these thinkers. With special attention to Georges Bataille, Simone de Beauvoir, Jacques Lacan, and Luce Irigaray,
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