Православната аскетика и женскиот ерос (низ призма на романот Облека на душаtа од Бошко Смаќоски)
THE ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN ASCETICISM AND THE FEMININE EROS (FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE NOVEL “CLOATHING OF THE SOUL” BY BOŠKO SMAKJOSKI)

Summary/Abstract: The of Perunica in the novel Cloathing of the Soul by Boško Smakjoski is enigmatic, not only for the traditional religios-moralistic, but also for the modern feminist and psychoanalytic interpretative position. The starting point of the following analysis is the claim that her impassibility is not asexual, but, on the contrary, essentially erotic. The sexuality of Perunica is fulfilled sexuality in its paradigmatic form. The filfilment of the erotic energy stays in the base of the Orthodox aestetic of the body. The “impassibility” of the orthodox iconography is not “impotent”, but is an expression of a perfectly actualized potency. In the discussion, we will concentrate on the analyse of the theological-philosophicel concepts ἔρος and ἀπαθία, at what we will turn to iconic examples from the Holy Scriptures of the Old and the New Testament interpreted in the terms of the Orthodox-ascetic exegetic tradition.

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