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The Feminine and the Sacred

by Catherine Clement
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Book cover type: Misc
  • ISBN13: 9780231115797
  • Binding: Misc
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  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press
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  • Original Price: USD 28.0
  • Language: English
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  • Item Weight: 227 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Religious

In November 1996, Catherine Cl ment and Julia Kristeva began a correspondence exploring the subject of the sacred. In this collection of those letters Catherine Cl ment approaches the topic from an anthropologist's point of view while Julia Kristeva responds from a psychoanalytic perspective. Their correspondence leads them to a controversial and fundamental question: is there anything sacred that can at the same time be considered strictly feminine? The two voices of the book work in tandem, fleshing out ideas and blending together into a melody of experience. The result is a dialogue that delves into the mysteries of belief--the relationship between faith and sexuality, the body and the senses--which, Cl ment and Kristeva argue, women feel with special intensity. Although their discourse is not necessarily about theology, the authors consider the role of women and femininity in the religions of the world, from Christianity and Judaism to Confucianism and African animism. They are the first to admit that what they have undertaken is "as impossible to accomplish as it is fascinating." Nevertheless, their wide-ranging and exhilarating dialogue succeeds in raising questions that are perhaps more important to ask than to answer.

Catherine Cl?ment is a prolific essayist and novelist. Her works in English include "Opera, Or the Undoing of Women; The Newly Born Woman" (with H?l?ne Cixous); "The Weary Sons of Freud;" and "The Lives and Legends of Jacques Lacan."Julia Kristeva, psychoanalyst and professor of linguistics at the University of Paris, is the author of many acclaimed books including "Time and Sense, Strangers to Ourselves, The Sense and Non-Sense of Revolt, " and "New Maladies of the Soul."

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