The Spiritual Consciousness of Carmen Mart? Gaite: The Whole of Life Has Meaning (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781855663886)

An exploration of Spanish writer Carmen Mart? Gaite's religious outlook through the inner journeys of five female characters.

For Mart? Gaite, a truly religious, or spiritual, perspective requires conscious attention to the products of the unconscious (dreams, images, memories, premonitions), followed by reflection and action, as well as a similar attentiveness and responsiveness to external events both large and small. This reconnection of the supernatural and day-to-day worlds also involves descent to the unconscious - the way to wholeness - as depicted in so many myths and fairy tales, including those which Mart? Gaite used to retell or enhance the works analysed in this book: Sleeping Beauty, The Little Mermaid, Amor and Psyche, Demeter and Persephone, and the Descent of the Goddess Inanna.

Looking at the extent to which these female characters attend to, reflect on, and respond to their dreams, images, memories and events, the analysis suggests that Mart? Gaite uses her stories to try to communicate both the road to her own enlightenment and warnings about paths that lead away from this.

Author: Anne-Marie Storrs
ISBN-10: 1855663880
ISBN-13: 9781855663886
Publisher: Tamesis Books
Language: English
Published: 03/07/2023
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d