love - water - surrender

unity - courtly love

mystical imagery, adam and eve

divinity in womanhood (mother jesus)

problems with sexuality

use and share of talents

acceptable infidelity

god as the lover

avoiding sins

no logical deduction

mirrors (reflection) for simple souls - heretic

gradual acceptance. Path

desire – servitude

abyss /heights

breath

sickness pain and violence of love

heavenly freedom

knowledge without delight seems to her the pain of hell.

Love melts through the soul and into the senses. And so the body too gains its part and conforms in all ways to love (other way around!)

It is the voice mixed with milk…

Correlating images of city and soul.

Paradoxies, binaries and juxtapositions – unconscious textual tactic to undo patriarchy: fluidity of female power. – selfless (through phallocentric discourse) –miming the sexuality in a masculine mode - traditionally masculine constructs are feminized and vice versa.

Mother becomes father/brother and father becomes mother.

strategy of modesty: woman: a humble creature

desire for three wounds, longing for sickness, desire for Christ's passion

tender and fair

blood of Christ: milk of the mother. – breast milk is processed blood

protective, productive, nurturing and consoling space of the maternal matrix

Virgin mother: focal point of men's desires and aspirations: the maiden becomes sexualized, bestowed with the earthly powers of the feudal lady of medieval courts.

Text: symbol of the mother - through the purity of its vernacular style

Female voice in the text is far from submissive

May he consume you in him… how thouroughly one dwells in the other… both are one through themselves, yet remain themselves and will always remain so.

And all this remains concealed to strangers, but to the wise it stands revealed

Contemporary longing for a bodiless perfection: textual, remote relationships; longing, waiting, visualising, body sickness deteriorating of the bodily functions. Intrusions of junk mail. Reality is text. What is a centre? desire for the untouchable. Opening of one's own self. Therefore: monogamous relationships aren't possible.

Sum of all goodness

Many such loves. the body disintegrated through various channels. the point is to find the centre, to re-find the boundaries and limit oneself.