Language, Love, Alterity and Transcendence As a Model of Julia Kristeva's Dynamic Spirituality.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Donnell, Kevin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spirituality.

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bradford : Ethics International Press Limited, 2024.

Summary:

Even an atheist has a spirituality. Spirituality can be considered as human, rather than narrowly religious. Many today call themselves 'spiritual but not religious'. It is impossible to define, and so various limited models are suggested by researchers. This book explores these issues and proposes a new model based upon the oeuvre of the Bulgarian/French semiologist, philosopher and psychoanalyst, Julia Kristeva. Kristeva is an atheist with a respect for religion, its valuing of the non-discursive, and its role in therapy. Her work is supplemented and contrasted by her peers, Hélène Cixous and Luce Irigaray. The author proposes a model, based on Kristeva's work, where themes of Language, Love, Alterity and Transcendence interact to form what we call 'spirituality', rather than simply being unconnected aspects of it. Suggestions are given of how this resulting model can be applied to Secondary Education (Religious Education in particular), and also approaches to Healthcare Education.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Introducing Julia Kristeva

Biography

Kristeva in context

Ideology

Hélène Cixous and Luce Irigaray

Conclusion

Models of Spirituality

Introduction

The decline of faith and the rise of 'spirituality'

Incipient spirituality

Metanarratives and Empiricism

The Postmodern Condition

Postmodernism or Critical Realism?

Models of spirituality - Sheldrake, Hay and RSA Report 'Spiritualise'

Towards a Kristevan spirituality?

Language - Speaking the Unspeakable

The Roots of the Semiotic

The Chora

Négativité

Jouissance

Psychoanalysis

The Avant-Garde - Mallarme, Lautreament, Artaud

Revolt

Time Regained

Literary and psychological critique

Cixous and Irigaray

Humour, and the aporia of the psyche

'Intertext Me' - Kristeva and Intertextuality

Intertextuality in Practice

The Ideologeme

The Old Man and the Wolves

The Orphic Return

Literary critique

Intertextuality and the creative arts

Biblical Criticism

Narrative Analysis as intertextuality?

Kristeva and the Biblical text

''The Greatest of These is Love"

What is love? - an eclectic study

Love as metaphor

Eros

Narcissus

Christ crucified and risen as the semiotic/Symbolic

Agape

Melancholy

Song of Songs

A literary critique

Teresa of Avila and the feminine body

'Sin, turned upside down into love'

Alterity - Staring into the Face of the Other

Strangers

Strangers to ourselves

Stabat Mater: Mother/Child

Young Muslim women and the veil

The Feminine

LGBTQ+

Echo finds her voice

The scar

Transcendence - 'the Beyond in the Midst'

The Disabled ('Differently Abled')

Correspondence with Jean Vanier

The Severed Head

Christ

Critique.

Cixous and Irigaray

Remaining questions

The Maternal in God?

A Conclusion - Kristeva's Circle of Spirituality

Co-inherence

A Safe, 'Psychic Space'

Applying Kristevan Spirituality to Health Care

Health Care spirituality

One possible model

Kristeva's Language, Love, Alterity and Transcendence

Applying Kristevan Spirituality to Education

Edusemiotics

Secondary Education in the U.K.

Kristevan Modelling

SMSC as spirituality

Julia Kristeva for Children?

Chapter One: Who is She?

Chapter Two: Speaking

Chapter Three: Loving

Chapter Four: Welcoming

Chapter Five: Going Beyond

References.

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ISBN:

9781804418734

1804418730

OCLC:

1492910149