love - water - surrender
unity - courtly love
mystical imagery, adam and eve
divinity in womanhood (mother jesus)
problems with sexuality
use and share of talents
acceptable infidelity
god as the lover
avoiding sins
no logical deduction
mirrors (reflection) for simple souls - heretic
gradual acceptance. Path
desire – servitude
abyss /heights
breath
sickness pain and violence of love
heavenly freedom
knowledge without delight seems to her the pain of hell.
Love melts through the soul and into the senses. And so the body too gains its part and conforms in all ways to love (other way around!)
It is the voice mixed with milk…
Correlating images of city and soul.
Paradoxies, binaries and juxtapositions – unconscious textual tactic to undo patriarchy: fluidity of female power. – selfless (through phallocentric discourse) –miming the sexuality in a masculine mode - traditionally masculine constructs are feminized and vice versa.
Mother becomes father/brother and father becomes mother.
strategy of modesty: woman: a humble creature
desire for three wounds, longing for sickness, desire for Christ's passion
tender and fair
blood of Christ: milk of the mother. – breast milk is processed blood
protective, productive, nurturing and consoling space of the maternal matrix
Virgin mother: focal point of men's desires and aspirations: the maiden becomes sexualized, bestowed with the earthly powers of the feudal lady of medieval courts.
Text: symbol of the mother - through the purity of its vernacular style
Female voice in the text is far from submissive
May he consume you in him… how thouroughly one dwells in the other… both are one through themselves, yet remain themselves and will always remain so.
And all this remains concealed to strangers, but to the wise it stands revealed
Contemporary longing for a bodiless perfection: textual, remote relationships; longing, waiting, visualising, body sickness deteriorating of the bodily functions. Intrusions of junk mail. Reality is text. What is a centre? desire for the untouchable. Opening of one's own self. Therefore: monogamous relationships aren't possible.
Sum of all goodness
Many such loves. the body disintegrated through various channels. the point is to find the centre, to re-find the boundaries and limit oneself.