Title: The intersubjectivity of the mystic : a study of Teresa of Avila's Interior castle /
Authors: Frohlich, Mary.
Publisher: Scholars Press,
Year: 1993
Subjects: Teresa,; Catholic Church Doctrines History; Spiritual life Catholic Church; Mysticism Catholic Church History of doctrines; Mysticism Spain History; Intersubjectivity Religious aspects Catholic Church History of doctrines
Abstract: "In the popular mind, the mystic is seen as the supreme solitary. This image, if accurate, would make the mystical quest marginal in an era when much theology has emphasized socially responsible praxis. Against the popular image, Mary Frohlich develops a theological model -- based on the writings of Bernard Lonergan and the "self-psychology" of Heinz Kohut -- that both respects mysticism's irreducible character and shows how it concretely transforms people and systems. She then applies this model to an interpretation of a classic expression of spiritual transformation, the Interior Castle of the sixteenth-century mystic Teresa of Avila." -- ‡c From back cover.
Contents: Ch. 1. Mysticism and Modernity -- Ch. 2. Lonergan and Foundational Methodology -- Ch. 3. Lonergan's Phenomenology of the Subject -- Ch. 4. Intersubjectivity and Mediation -- Ch. 5. A Theory of Mystical Experience and Transformation -- Ch. 6. The Text: Teresa's Interior Castle -- Ch. 7. Teresa's Mystical Transformation: An Interiority Analysis -- Ch. 8. Introduction to Relevant Aspects of Self Psychology -- Ch. 9. Self Psychology and the Interpretation of a Mystic's Text -- Ch. 10. A Self-Psychological Analysis of Teresa's Mystical Transformation -- Ch. 11. Transformed Representations of Self, Group Self, and God -- Ch. 12. A Critical Review of the Project -- App. A. Background to the Notion of Mediation -- App. B. The Interior Castle: Literary Sources and Influences -- App. C. Self Psychology and the Psychology of Groups.