The perverted mystic — the curious case of Angelus Silesius
<p>Lacan makes a very intriguing point in seminar XX, <em>Encore</em>, namely a sexual division along the lines of mysticism and the mystical tradition. Here, we hear that Teresa de Avila is a mystic of feminine jouissance, whereas Angelus Silesius is a mystic on the male side of sexuation. We know, that these two modes of sexuation have nothing to do with biology, it is how the speaking being is caught up in language and how they relate to castration as a fact of the symbolic order. Whereas the male side of sexuation relies on an exception to castration (for example the primordial father, who enjoys all the women), the female side has no exception to castration. There is no “primordial father”, or exception that constitutes the female side. </p>
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