The Spiritual Consciousness of Carmen Martn Gaite by Anne-Ma... - 9781855663886

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The Spiritual Consciousness of Carmen Martn GaiteThe Whole of Life has Meaning\nAuthor(s): Anne-Marie Storrs\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Tamesis Books\nISBN-13: 9781855663886, 978-1855663886\nSynopsis\nAn exploration of Spanish writer Carmen Martn Gaite's religious outlook through the inner journeys of five female characters.\n\nFor Martn Gaite, a truly religious, or spiritual, perspective requires conscious attention to the products of the unconscious (dreams, images, memories, premonitions), followed by reflection and action, as well as a similar attentiveness and responsiveness to external events both large and small. This reconnection of the supernatural and day-to-day worlds also involves descent to the unconscious - the way to wholeness - as depicted in so many myths and fairy tales, including those which Martn Gaite used to retell or enhance the works analysed in this book: Sleeping Beauty, The Little Mermaid, Amor and Psych.