Symbolic Patterns of Childbirth

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1 Symbolic Patterns of Childbirth Bearbeitet von Anja Hänsch 1. Auflage Taschenbuch. 282 S. Paperback ISBN Format (B x L): 15,5 x 22,5 cm Gewicht: 400 g Weitere Fachgebiete > Ethnologie, Volkskunde, Soziologie > soziale Gruppen; Altersgruppen > Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie schnell und portofrei erhältlich bei Die Online-Fachbuchhandlung beck-shop.de ist spezialisiert auf Fachbücher, insbesondere Recht, Steuern und Wirtschaft. Im Sortiment finden Sie alle Medien (Bücher, Zeitschriften, CDs, ebooks, etc.) aller Verlage. Ergänzt wird das Programm durch Services wie Neuerscheinungsdienst oder Zusammenstellungen von Büchern zu Sonderpreisen. Der Shop führt mehr als 8 Millionen Produkte.

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3 Contents Preface Acknowledgements I. Childbirth as Symbolic Patterns, Experience and Performance II. A Conception of Childbirth The Paradigm: Hannah Arendt s Philosophy of Natality Primary, Political, Theoretical and Spiritual Natality: Four Ways of Accessing a Beginning Natalities and Immortalities Childbirth, Sex and Gender Conceiving of the Birthgiving Woman From an Existential Definition of Death to an Existential Definition of Giving Birth Thrownness and Anxiety Pain as Disclosing Mystery, Standstill and Non-Relationality III. Symbolic Patterns of Childbirth III.1 The Supremacy of the Male Creation as Procreation in Egyptian Cosmogony The Twelfth Tablet of the Gilgamesh-Epic Hesiod: On Anadyomène Genesis: Woman of Man Born The Genealogies of the Old Testament and of Prophet Muhammad Mimesis: The Births of Athena and Dionysos... 60

4 1.7 The Semen and the Stars: Aristotle s De Generatione Animalium and the Gender of Pneuma Foundations for a Dubious Supremacy of the Male: Tertullian and Augustine on the Transmission of Original Sin On the Heels of Aristotle: The Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas From Semen and the Stars to Semen and Sin The Agency of the Holy Ghost Reflections on Male Divinities Intervening into Women s Wombs The Divine in the Prophet: The Procreation of Muhammad in the Sirat of Ibn Hisham Twentieth Century Examples for the Supremacy of the Male...90 III.2 Theoretical, Spiritual and Political Natality versus Childbirth The Babylonian Myth of Creation and the Creation Myth of the Bible Plato s Symposium and the Deathless Children of Philosophers Discussion: Reflections on Theorein, Doing and Childbirth Creation Abandoned for the Idea of Good: The Justinian Myth of Edem and Elohim Abraham and the Binding of Isaac (in the Reading of Kierkegaard) From Abraham to Agamemnon: Iphigeneia at Aulis of Euripides Christian Devotion versus Childbirth Luke 11: 27 28: The Word s Supremacy over the Womb The Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas

5 6.3 Birth as Deriving from the Skins of Brutes : Gregory of Nyssa s Understanding of Marriage and Virginity as Different Conditions of the Soul On Desks and Cradles: a Letter from Héloise to Abélard A World Where Saps Will Have Their Way: The Opposition of Life and Art in Rainer Maria Rilke s Requiem for a Friend The Ejaculation is a Promise of Death: Simone de Beauvoir s Conception of Individuality as Being Opposed to the Human Species Against the Tyranny of the Fates: Joseph Fletcher s Plea for Rational Procreation as Opposed to Childbirth by Raw Nature From the Supremacy of Theorein over Childbirth to Childbirth in Theory? Günter Grass: Headbirths Edward Albee: Who s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? III.3 The Supremacy of the Female The First Birthgiving: Goddesses as Mothers of the Gods and as the Origin of the World The Creation of the World by Sophia the Fallen Wisdom : A Gnostic Myth Isis and Mary: The Supremacy of the Female and Harmony between Spiritual Birth and Childbirth Mikhail Epstein: The Russian-Doll-Principle III.4 Harmony between Spiritual/ Theoretical Natality and Childbirth Childbirth, Wisdom and Mystery Religion: The Reign of Queen Isis Plutarch s Isis as Idea: The Goddess of Philosophers and the Goddess of Childbirth

6 1.2 Lucius Apuleius: Isis as Blessed Queen of Heaven, Reliever of the Birth Pangs of Women, and Sovereign of All Things Spiritual From Isis to Mary The Incarnation of the Sacred Through a Woman: Mary as Spiritual Vessel Mary-Theotokos Mary s Disembodiment and the Painless Virgin Birth Immaculate Conception Mediatrix Corredemptrix Regina Caeli Mary-Sophia Two Examples for Different Conceptions of Mary: Augustine and Friedrich Schleiermacher Paula Modersohn-Becker: The Pregnant Mystic Self-Portrait on the Sixth Wedding Anniversary Self-Portrait, Two Flowers in the Raised Hand Self- Portrait with Camellia Branch Mikhail Epstein: Towards an Ethics of Childbirth IV. Final Remarks: A Baby Has Been Bor n So What? Bibliography