The contribution focuses on the category of the Invisible, understood as another dimension of reality, in the medieval texts of mystical women in the Christian filed. Through an overview of examples, which includes the proemial experience of Mary Magdalene and the Gnostic Gospel attributed to her, and is projected into the legibility horizon, with references to modern and contemporary authors, the modalities and functions of the visionary language are investigated. The intermediate space between matter and spirit, where the sacred image takes shape, the Imaginal investigated by Henry Corbin, is linked to the female world of writing and arts, to the sensitivity of a gaze that gets close, captures the subtle and opens to profound dimensions of knowledge and acceptance of oneself, of the other, of nature.
L'invisibile nell'esperienza delle mistiche medievali
Eliana Creazzo
2023-01-01
Abstract
The contribution focuses on the category of the Invisible, understood as another dimension of reality, in the medieval texts of mystical women in the Christian filed. Through an overview of examples, which includes the proemial experience of Mary Magdalene and the Gnostic Gospel attributed to her, and is projected into the legibility horizon, with references to modern and contemporary authors, the modalities and functions of the visionary language are investigated. The intermediate space between matter and spirit, where the sacred image takes shape, the Imaginal investigated by Henry Corbin, is linked to the female world of writing and arts, to the sensitivity of a gaze that gets close, captures the subtle and opens to profound dimensions of knowledge and acceptance of oneself, of the other, of nature.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
