'Resurrecting Erotic Transgression' presents a feminist theological methodology based on the work of Julia Kristeva. This methodology provides the means for 'subjecting ambiguity', bringing to theology a recognition of the multiplicity of language and identity. A method of 'poetic reading' is proposed with a three stage process: articulation of the dualities present in and around a focal discourse; subversion of these dualities through a range of strategies; and the re-presentation of the discourse emphasising its ambiguous nature. The hermeneutical method of 'poetic reading' is explored in relation to three biblical texts and an image of the 'otherness' of God as whore.

Monro, Anita

London ; Oakville, CT: Equinox Pub.

Equinox Publishing (UK)

Equinox Publishing Ltd

Taylor and Francis

Gender, theology, and spirituality, London, Oakville, CT, England, 2006

Gender, theology and spirituality, London [etc, 2006

Gender, Theology and Spirituality, Sheffield, 2016

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

September 30, 2007

1, FR, 2006

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: subjecting ambiguity: outline and impetus
Addressing ambiguity
Methodological overview
Argument outline
My approach
Resurrecting erotic transgression : poststructuralism and theology
A poststructuralist theological project
Erotic transgressive resurrection
Post-structuralism
Post-modernism
Nihilism?
Poststructuralism and theology
Feminism, poststructuralism and theology
Women clothed with the sun : re-presenting identities which are not one(s)
Community and identity
The identity woman?
Poetic reading and community
Identities of women
Problematising otherness?
Re-presenting subjectivity
Duality : the genesis of ambiguity
Whence poststructuralism?
Assumption 1
Assumption 2
Assumption 3
Assumption 4
Beyond duality : alterity and the exodus of identity
Post-structuralism
Alterity
Derrida and differance
Differance and deconstruction
Lacan and jouissance
Alterity, the woman and jouissance
The cry of ambiguity : jouissance as hermeneutical birth
The jouissance of poetic language
Abjection of self as poetic language
Analysis and analysand
Reading apocalypse
Enumerating alterity : the transgressive method of poetic reading
Unpacking a method
Identifying dualities
Displacing the order
Re-presenting the discourse
Re-presenting the (m)other : a theology of an-other coming
Making a case
Virgin and/or whore
The whore
The whore as murdered (m)other
The Canaanite woman as (m)other
Resurrecting erotic transgression : without end for no reason?
The remainder
Successes and limitations?

Resurrecting Erotic Transgression presents a feminist theological methodology based in the poststructuralism of Julia Kristeva (b. 1941). This methodology provides the means for subjecting ambiguity or bringing into human communication (including theology) a recognition of the multiplicity of language and identity. Such recognition arises from sustained attention to the otherness or alterity of language and subjectivity. This attention produces an ambivalent enjoyment (jouissance) of the shattering of the idea of identity as unitary and singular, and an overturning of the effect of extant dualities in language and identity. A method of poetic reading is proposed with a three stage process: articulation of the dualities present in and around a focal discourse; subversion of these dualities through a range of strategies; and the re-presentation of the discourse emphasising its ambiguous nature. Kristeva's account of poetic language identifies a form of writing that precipitates jouissance. The concept of poetic language is appropriated for the claim that jouissance might also be the outcome of the reproduction or interpretation of discourse (i.e. reading), as well as of discursive production itself. The hermeneutical method of poetic reading is explored in relation to three biblical texts and an image of the otherness of God as Whore.

viii, 194 p. ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-189) and indexes
Introduction: subjecting ambiguity: outline and impetus -- Resurrecting erotic transgression : poststructuralism and theology -- Women clothed with the sun : re-presenting identities which are not one(s) -- Duality : the genesis of ambiguity -- Beyond duality : alterity and the exodus of identity -- The cry of ambiguity : jouissance as hermeneutical birth -- Enumerating alterity : the transgressive method of poetic reading -- Re-presenting the (m)other : a theology of an-other coming -- Resurrecting erotic transgression : without end for no reason

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction Subjecting Ambiguity: Outline and Impetus -- Chapter 1 Resurrecting Erotic Transgression: Poststructuralism and Theology -- Chapter 2 Women Clothed With the Sun: Re-Presenting Identities Which are Not One(S) -- Chapter 3 Duality: The Genesis of Ambiguity -- Chapter 4 Beyond Duality: Alterity and The Exodus of Identity -- Chapter 5 The Cry of Ambiguity: Jouissance As Hermeneutical Birth -- Chapter 6 Enumerating Alterity: The Transgressive Method of Poetic Reading

2023-06-28