| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 121 pages) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Part I: A New Culture of Energy -- Introduction -- The Liberation of Energy Through Psychoanalysis -- Yoga as a Road to Recovery -- Gaining Autonomy -- Humanizing Our Breath -- Our Body as Mediator -- The Emphasis on Performance Is Rarely Conducive to Exchange -- More Than Not Harming: Loving -- Compassion: The Basis of a Universal Sharing -- Incarnating Ourselves with the Help of Animals and Angels -- Arriving at Speech Thanks to Silence -- The Spiritual Path Opened by Sensory Perceptions -- Unity and Duality -- Gods, God, or another relationship to the divine -- A New Culture of Energy -- Myths and History -- Part II: The Mystery of Mary -- Prologue -- Divine from Birth -- The Event of the Annunciation -- The Virginity of Mary -- The Silence of Mary -- Visible and Invisible -- Touched by Grace -- A Figure of Wisdom -- A Bridge in Time and Space |
| Summary |
"This short book argues for the need to build a culture of love by understanding and mobilizing psychic energy, which Irigaray associates both literally and culturally with breathing and the breath, and in the first part she suggests through a series of short chapters how the practice of yoga can help individuals to move towards a culture of breathing, concentration, and meditation, which leads to individuation. The second part focuses on the Virgin Mary in terms of feminist philosophy, informed by questions such as the importance of breathing, the possibility of a couple sharing a physical and a spiritual relationship at different moments in history, and the relationship between the word and the flesh. Together, the two sections analyze the difference between Western and Eastern cultures and build bridges between the two not only at a theoretical level but through practices, especially those of psychoanalysis and yoga. Through her experience of both practices, Luce Irigaray reflects on the respective contributions of each tradition toward the liberation and the cultivation of our human energy and the elaboration of a culture suitable for our present and future evolution in harmony with all living beings"-- Provided by publisher |
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Mary |
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Virgin Mary |
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breath |
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spiritual well-being |
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spirituality |
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touch |
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yoga |
| Notes |
Translation of: Une nouvelle culture de l'énergie : par delà orient et occident |
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Includes index |
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Translated from the French |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 30, 2021) |
| Subject |
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint.
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Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint |
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Energy medicine.
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Psychotherapy.
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Yoga -- Therapeutic use.
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Breathing exercises -- Therapeutic use.
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Spiritual healing.
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Mind and body.
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East and West.
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Yoga -- psychology
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PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / Psychoanalysis
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Breathing exercises -- Therapeutic use
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East and West
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Energy medicine
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Mind and body
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Psychotherapy
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Spiritual healing
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Yoga -- Therapeutic use
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Seely, Stephen D., translator.
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Pluháček, Stephen, translator.
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Pont, Antonia, translator.
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| LC no. |
2021017833 |
| ISBN |
9780231551540 |
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0231551541 |
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