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Does for spirituality what Sophie's World did for philosophy. Theo
is fourteen, very clever, reads a lot, loves computer games and the
Greek myths. But then, suddenly, he falls ill. His rich aunt Martha
decides that they must roam the world to find a cure for his
malaise. What follows is a tour of the world's religions and
religious sites, with the sceptical, quizzical Theo being shown the
varieties and depths of faith that exist in other places, other
cultures. All this is handled with real style, pace, wit and
clarity. The book is a thoroughly enjoyable introduction to why and
how people believe in their God - even Dave Allen would have liked
it.
'A strength of the book is its effective balancing of essays that critique traditional religious structures and those that construct radical new modes of thinking about the divine.' - Kelley Raab, St. Lawrence University, Religious Studies Review
Catherine Clement analyzes the plots of over thirty prominent
operas -- Otello and Siegfried to Madame Butterfly and Magic Flute
-- through the lenses of feminism and literary theory to unveil the
negative messages about women in stories familiar to every opera
listener.
The Weary Sons of Freud lambasts mainstream psychoanalysis for its
failure to grapple with pressing political and social matters
pertinent to its patients' condition. Gifted with insight and
compelled by fury, Catherine Clement contrasts the original,
inspirational psychoanalytical work of Freud and Lacan to the
obsessive imitations of their uninspired followers-the weary sons
of Freud. The analyst's once attentive ear has become deaf to the
broader questions of therapeutic practice. Clement asks whether the
perspective of socialism, brought to this study by a woman who is
herself an analysand, can fill the gap. She reflects on her own
history, as well as on that of psychoanalysis and the French left,
to show what an activist and feminist restoration of the talking
cure might look like.
A comparison of Western and Indian philosophies using syncope, to
describe the escape from self and the rapture of uncertainty in
human endeavour.
Published in France as La jeune née in 1975, and found here in its
first English translation, The Newly Born Woman is a landmark text
of the modern feminist movement. In it, Hélène Cixous and
Catherine Clément put forward the concept of écriture feminine,
exploring the ways women’s sexuality and unconscious shape their
imaginary, their language, and their writing. Through their
readings of historical, literary, and psychoanalytic accounts,
Cixous and Clément explore what is hidden and repressed in
culture, revealing the unconscious of history.
The Call of the Trance is a magnificent book that takes us to the
unchartered frontiers of the forbidden. From initiation ceremonies
to crises of hysteria, from suicide attempts to the ecstasies of
witches, Catherine Clement explores in simple but scholarly terms
the responses that civilizations have offered to the humanistic
need for escape from the body. These "eclipses" from life and
reality, pursued by people across cultures, are elusive and
invariably inexpressible. Clement details this phenomenon through
the past and the present, from the witches of Loudun to current
Mongolian shamans and from the eighteenth-century convulsionaries
of Saint-Medard to Greeks of today, who follow in the footsteps of
their earlier practices. Along the way, she questions the countless
ways humans push back the limits of the mind and body, and she
shows how, from Dionysian antiquity to our own day, the ecstasy of
the trance state shows up in anorexia, rock music, rap, sexual
reassignment, eroticism, and even Twilight-style vampire stories.
Germany, 1975. Two women near the end of their lives come together
at the bedside of an old man, after having spent the last fifty
years vying for first place in his heart. While one of the 20th
century's greatest minds slumbers in the grip of nightmares, the
two enemies sit in a nearby room and declare a truce. One is the
man's wife, a woman who has always played her role as the devoted
mother and the obedient, bourgeois Hausfrau to the Great Man and
the tyrannical husband. The other is his former student and lover,
nearly twenty years his junior. She is the Jewish intellectual
consumed by her clear-sightedness. He is the brilliant and famous
philosopher, now tormented by his Nazi past.
In this wide-ranging score, each performer has an individual theme,
yet each shares some of the notes of the others. But, above all,
this fugue for three voices reveals the mark of the greatest
tragedy of the century: for the characters are Martin Heidegger,
his wife Elfriede, and Hannah Arendt.
Catherine Clement skillfully paints a chiaroscuro portrait of
forbidden love, recreating a famous love affair while turning the
subtle intricacies of philosophy into memorable, enduring fiction.
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