RT Article
T1 Heterosexual Melancholia and Mysticism in the Early Society of Jesus
JF Theology & sexuality
VO 13
IS 2
SP 121
OP 135
A1 Marín, Juan
LA English
PB Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
YR 2007
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1779664141
AB In the last decades of the sixteenth century the Society of Jesus prohibited its members the reading of several mystical texts. A theme that cuts across these texts is the use of erotic language to describe the relationship between the soul and God. I argue that what lies behind the prohibition is the fear that desire, especially homoerotic desire, would be a threat to Jesuit identity. I use Judith Butler's concept of heterosexual melancholia to illuminate this episode in Jesuit history.
K1 Spirituality
K1 heterosexual melancholia
K1 Jesuits
DO 10.1177/1355835806074429