Entre o Sacro e o Profano, entre o Gozo e o Interdito: a polêmica, prolífica e profícua Santa Teresa de Ávila

• Autor(a) principal: Câmara, Yls Rabelo
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Caracol (São Paulo. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/caracol/article/view/167790
• topic: Santa Teresa de Ávila; Erotismo; Literatura; Edad Media; Saint Teresa of Ávila; Eroticism; Literature; Middle Age; Santa Teresa de Ávila; Erotismo; Literatura; Idade Média

Teresa of Ávila was a writer, a nun and a Catholic saint, very different from the other counterparts of hers. Art, in all its forms of expression, has explored to exhaustion both this paradigm-breaking figure and her unique literary legacy and the eroticism that emanates from her naturally or not - depending on the context. In order to discuss about her, living up to her importance and charisma, we briefly analyzed her life and work in this article. Notably ahead of her time, this empowered woman challenged the Church with her erotic sacred poetry, from her own elans towards Jesus Christ. We believe in the relevance of this work due to its unprejudiced approach, whose academic treatment turns to a well-studied topic, but not enough, in our view. For this reason, we briefly analyze, in this bibliographical survey, the sexualized poetic discourse of Teresa of Ávila in the light of Bataille (1957), Mesonero (2013) and Pedrosa-Pádua (2011) - just to name a few. We conclude that the poetry impregnated with eroticism by this author deserves further study to give it recognition, since she dared to challenge the phallocentric and Judeo-Christian discourse of a Spain sliced ​​between the overseas conquests in the New Continent, the battles of the Counter-reform for the eradication of heretics in Spanish territory, and the dissemination of the Holy Inquisition - which was aimed at her and imposed itself against her.