GUTTON PHILIPPE THE MYSTICAL PARADOX

»The mystical evolution of St. Theresa of Lisieux is examined using a model of the state of illusion (according to Winnicott's approach). The latter, defined by its paradoxical quality - « me-not me «, « living-dying « - is fragile before the threat of a paradoxical injunction. Throughout her childhood, this threat was acted out by what Theresa, after her mother's death, called «the moms». She had a very eventful childhood which would turn mystical when, in adolescence, her illusion tutors were condensed into « Jesus-moms «. « Conversion « she calls it, a transference soon consolidated by her Carmelite vocation and her doctrine.»

Mots clés Paradoxical quality, Paradoxical, Illusion state, Mystical state, Transference, Counter-transference.