Julia Kristeva - Teresa, My Love - An Imagined Life of the Saint of Avila

16. Way , 11:2, CW 2:80.

17. Way , 11:3, CW 2:80.

18. Way , 11:4, CW 2:81.

19. Life , 7:11, CW 1:88.

20. Life , 7:10, CW 1:87. For Teresa’s encouragement of her father’s faith and growing closeness to him at the end of his life, see Life , 7:10–16.

21. Life , 22:3, CW 1:192.

22. Life , 22:6, 8, CW 1:193–95.

23. Way , 19:2, 4, CW 2:107, 108.

24. VI D , 3:5, CW 2:372.

25. VI D , 3:6, CW 2:373.

26. Testimonies , 51, CW 1:414.

27. Denis Diderot, Elements of Physiology , from “Notes for Elements of Physiology , probably in preparation for a larger work on the nature of man,” quoted in Jim Herrick, Against the Faith (New York: Prometheus, 1985), 84. (Passage from the “Conclusion” not included in Diderot, Interpreter of Nature: Selected Writings , ed. J. Kemp [New York: Lawrence and Wishart, 1963], the only place that seems to contain the Elements in English.)

28. Way , 31:9, CW 2:157.

29. Way , 24:4, CW 2:129.

30. Life , 14:5, CW 1:135.

31. VII D , 2:7, CW 2:435–36.

32. VII D , 2:9–10, CW 2:436–37. (Translation modified.)

33. I D , 1:5, CW 2:285.

30. ACT 1: HER WOMEN

1. V D , 1:4, CW 2:336–37.

2. I D , 2:7, CW 2:290.

3. Way , 28:10, CW 2:144.

4. IV D , 2:2, CW 2:323.

5. Testimonies , 58, CW 1:424.

6. VII D , 3:2, CW 2:438.

7. Found ., 12, CW 3:156–60.

8. Found ., 12:6, CW 3:158–59.

9. Found ., 5:10, CW 3:120.

10. Life , 40:8, CW 1:357.

11. Life , 24:4, CW 1:211.

12. Life , 30:3, CW 1:254.

13. Cf. Rosa Rossi, Thérèse d’Avila (Paris: Cerf, 1989), 177: Teresa and Ana de San Bartolomé.

14. Way , 7:7, CW 2:69.

15. Way , 10:5, CW 2:69.

16. Life , 10:8, CW 1:109.

17. Letter 135, to Ambrosio Mariano, October 21, 1576, CL 1:361.

18. Way , 4:13, CW 2:57.

19. Way , 7:8, CW 2:70.

20. Found ., 17, CW 3:179–85.

21. Letter 58, to Domingo Báñez, January 1574, CL 1:148.

22. Letter 109, to María de San José, June 16, 1576, CL 1:285.

23. Letter 112, to María de San José, July 2, 1576, CL 1:291.

24. Letter 126, to María de San José, September 22, 1576, CL 1:337.

25. Letter 132, to María de San José, October 13, 1576, CL 1:351.

26. Letter 137, to María de San José, October 1576, CL 1:373.

27. Letter 146, to María de San José, November 8, 1576, CL 1:392.

28. Letter 152, to María de San José, November 26, 1576, CL 1:409.

29. Letter 152, to María de San José, November 26, 1576, CL 1:411.

30. Letter 198, to María de San José, June 28, 1577, CL 1:542.

31. Letter 331, to María de San José, February 8–9, 1580, CL 2:282.

32. Letter 173, to María de San José, January 3, 1577, CL 1:460.

33. Letter 186, to María de San José, February 28, 1577, CL 1:511.

34. Letter 330, to María de San José, February 1, 1580, CL 2:273.

35. Letter 311, to Jerome Gratian, October 14, 1579, CL 2:226.

36. Ibid.

37. Letter 88, to María Bautista, August 28, 1575, CL 1:224.

38. Ibid., CL 1:223.

39. Dante, rhyme 67: “Però nol fan che non san quel che sono; camera di perdon sano uom non serra, ché’l perdonare e bel vincer di guerra.” The envoi of his canzone of exile, beginning “Tre donne intorno al cor mi son venute” (1304). Trans. Barbara Reynolds, in Reynolds, Dante: The Poet, the Political Thinker, the Man (London: IB Tauris, 2006), 96.

40. Letter 307, to Jerome Gratian, July 25, 1579, CL 2:218.

41. Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot and Not I , in Collected Shorter Plays (London: Grove Press, 1994).

42. I D , 1:5, CW 2:285.

43. Foundations , 10:14, CW 3:150.

44. Way , 4:16, CW 2:58.

45. Letter 177, to Lorenzo de Cepeda, January 17, 1577, CL 1:474–75.

46. Sol ., 14:4, CW 1:458.

47. Life , 21:6, CW 1:187.

48. Found ., 20:4, CW 3:198.

49. Found ., 20:3, CW 3:198.

50. Letter 342, to duchess of Alba, May 8, 1580, CL 2:310.

51. Letter 94, to Inés Nieto, October 31, 1575, CL 1:237.

52. Letter 278, to the duchess of Alba, December 2, 1578, CL 2:147.

53. Exod. 5:1; 6:8. See also Exod. 9:1: “Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, so they may serve me.”

54. Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily (1772–1807) was the last Holy Roman Empress and first empress of Austria, wife of Francis I of Habsburg-Lorraine, first emperor of Austria. Granddaughter of Habsburg ruler Maria Theresa of Austria, who was the mother of the Holy Roman Emperor, Joseph II.

55. VI D , 6:3, CW 2:392 (adapted).

56. John of the Cross, “The Dark Night,” in The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross , trans. Kieran Kavanaugh and Otilio Rodriguez (Washington, D.C.: Institute of Carmelite Studies, 1973), 712.

31. ACT 2: HER ELISEUS

1. Testimonies , 34, CW 1:404.

2. Letter 159, to Jerome Gratian, December 7, 1576, CL 1:423.

3. Ibid.

4. Letter 162, to Jerome Gratian, December 13, 1576, CL 1:436.

5. Letter 170, to Jerome Gratian, late December 1576, CL 1:450.

6. Letter 242, to Jerome Gratian, April 26, 1578, CL 2:62–63.

7. Letter 297, to Jerome Gratian, June 10, 1579, CL 2:195.

8. IV D , 1:7, CW 2:319.

9. Found ., 23:13, CW 3:222.

10. Letter 141, November 1576, CL 1:379.

11. Letter 81, to Isabel de Santo Domingo, May 12, 1575, CL 1:202.

12. Letter 246, to Jerome Gratian, May 14, 1578, CL 2:72.

13. Letter 145, to Jerome Gratian, November 4, 1576, CL 1:390.

14. Letter 124, to Jerome Gratian, September 20, 1576, CL 1:328.

15. Ibid., CL 1:328–29.

16. Ibid., CL 1:333.

17. Letter 147, to Jerome Gratian, November 11, 1576, CL 1:394.

18. Letter 141, to Jerome Gratian, November 1546(?), CL 1:378.

19. Letter 92, to Jerome Gratian, October 1575, CL 1:233–34.

20. Letter 149, to Jerome Gratian, November 1576, CL 1:400.

21. Letter 261, to Jerome Gratian, late August 1578, CL 2:108.

22. Letter 196, to María de San José, May 28, 1577, CL 1:538.

23. Letter 108, to Jerome Gratian, June 15, 1576, CL 1:279.

24. Letter 311, to Jerome Gratian, October 14, 1579, CL 2:225.