TERESA, MY LOVE / AN IMAGINED LIFE OF THE SAINT OF AVILA

Mixing fiction, history, psychoanalysis, and personal fantasy, Teresa, My Love turns a past world into a modern marvel, following Sy lvia Leclercq, a French psychoanalyst, academic, and incurable insomniac, as she falls for the sixteenth-century Saint Teresa of Avi la and becomes consumed with charting her life. Traveling to Spain, Leclercq, Julia Kristeva's probing alter ego, visits the sites a nd embodiments of the famous mystic and awakens to her own desire for faith, connection, and rebellion...