Sensible Ecstasy

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
I. Georges Bataille, Mystique
Introduction: "the philosopher—Sartre—and me"
1 The Scandal of the Real
2 Mysticism, Trauma, and Catastrophe in Angela of Foligno's Book and Bataille's Atheological Summa
3 From Image to Text: Photography, Writing, and Communication
II. (En)gendering Mysticism
Introduction: From Woundedness to Castration; or, On the Gender of Mysticism
4 "Mysticism is tempting": Simone de Beauvoir on Mysticism, Metaphysics, and Sexual Difference
5 Jacques Lacan, Encore: Feminine Jouissance, the Real, and the Goal of Psychoanalysis
III. Feminism, Mysticism, and Belief
Introduction: Feminism and Psychoanalysis in France
6 From Lack to Fluidity: Luce Irigaray, La Mystérique
7 Sexual Difference and the Problem of Belief
8 Ventriloquizing Hysteria: Fetishism, Trauma, and Sexual Difference
Conclusion
Notes
Index