여성의 몸·여성의 주체성 —중세여성 명상가와 여성으로서의 예수
Medieval Female Mystics and the Divine Motherhood
- 발행
- 2010 등록이 논문은 발행 시점을 확인하지 못해 원문 등록일을 적었습니다. KCI가 2005~2008년에 옛 논문을 몰아서 올린 탓에, 그 시기 등록분은 발행보다 평균 3~5년 늦습니다. 실제 발행연도는 더 이를 수 있습니다.
- 출처
- 국내 KCI
- DOI
- 10.15794/jell.2010.56.4.004
- UCI
- G704+INS000001439-ART001487902
- 원문
- 원문 보기 ↗
개념
키워드
예수의 상처, 여성의 몸, 굶기(거식증), 먹기와 먹히기, 어머니로서의예수, 중세여성 명상가, 젠더와 성, Christ’s wounds, female body, hunger (anorexia), to eat and to be eaten, Jesus as Mother, medieval female mystics, gender and sex
초록
Meditation on Christ’s body is peculiar to late medieval female mysticism. The somatic meditation on Christ basically derives from the Incarnation, but the female mystics focused more on the Passion and the Eucharist, i.e.,Christ’s bleeding and feeding. Then, female body structure and the gender role of nurturing were combined to make facile her imitatio Christi, because the female body was aptly identified with Christ’s body. The blood flowing in the side of Christ was often in medieval graphics and texts identified with a mother’s milk for a baby to suck. Wound and food, suffering and nourishing,were inseparable in Christ’s and the female mystics’ body. Thus, in late medieval female mystical practice, it is important to note, first, female mystics’bodily pain was not to be cured but endured; second, that not only did a female mystic eat Christ’s body, but her own body was to be “eaten” by poor neighbors, just as Christ gave his own body to be eaten by believers. As Christ’s body is punctured, so does the female body have open holes, and as Christ is food, so is the female body. This female meditation on Christ’s body developed the notion of “divine motherhood” to be accepted an