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Queer Interpretations of Jesus' Side Wound - Coggle Diagram
Queer Interpretations of Jesus' Side Wound
Heteronormative academia exemplified by Bynum
"Women could fuse with Christ's body because they were in some sense body, yet women never forgot the maleness of Christ" (Bynum)
"In order for the heterosexuality of female mysticism to remain intact, an awful lot of adjustments need to be made, forcing us to wonder whose paradigm this is anyway: Bynum's...or the female mystics?" (Lochrie 188)
"The queer crisis posed by female mystical desire is thus averted by the assumption that the maternal disavows the sexual" (Lochrie 188)
Erotic relationship between Jesus and medieval mystics
"Eroticism and sex inhabit more perverse and polymorphous regions than is usually acknowledged" (Lochrie 184)
Homoerotic union of feminine Jesus and female mysitcs
"the desire of the female mystic often strays from the heterosexual realm she is assumed to inhabit as Bride of Christ" (Lochrie 186)
Union between believers and the holy is not bound to earthly structures, like heterosexuality
"In the
Stimulus Amoris
and elsewhere, gender and sexuality are transitive, rather than binary and monolithic" (Lochrie 189-190)
"Drink, daughter, from my side. And by that draught your soul shall become enraptured with such delight that your very body, whcih for my sake you have denied, shall be inundated with its overflowing goodness" (Catherine of Siena)
Erotic union between woman's mouth and Jesus' wound
"There is no evidence in the mystical writings usually cited of such gender and sexuality policing by female or male mystics; however, there is evidence of scholarly intervention when mystical genders and sexualities stray from heterosexual paradigms" (Lochrie 188)
"there is evidence in devotional texts for and by women that the wound was a focus for sexual experiences of mystical union" (Lochrie 190)
"This sealing of Christ and devotional lover throug the vulvic wound...is translated into contractual language" (Lochrie 191)
Love/Relationship with Christ is understood in the body
"Sexual consummation...marks a liminal experience for Angela by which she crosses over the boundaries of speech and the body into death" (Lochrie 185)
Painful love
"And then at once she was filled with love and inestimable satiety, which, although it satiated, generated at the same time inestimable hunger" (Angela of Foligno)
"mystical sex...was a frightening, violating, and debilitating experience" (Lochrie 186)
Holy love "confuses stations, disregards manners, knows no bounds. Proprieties, reason, decency, prudence, judgement are defeated and reduced to slavery" (Bernard of Clairvaux)
"To founder unceasingly in heat and cold,/ In the deep insurmountable darkness of Love./ This outdoes the torments of hell" (Hadewijch)
"When the author says, 'Break not that seal which seals you together' ...meaning 'the two of you.' The mark of maidenhead, the virgin's intact vagina, is joined in yet another seal to Christ" (Lochrie 191)