Etty Hillesum, An
Interrupted Life
Love Unto Death
1. The Story of the Book, Comparisons with Pure
Heart, Enlightened Mind
Journal genre, age, cultural
background, and spiritual yearning
A paring back, a
simplification
Seeking a mentor
Movement from intellectual
grasp to embodied realization
Modalities of knowing:
intellectual, intuitive, affective, and somatic
2. Etty's Religion and Spirituality
Her Jewish roots
German romanticism and the
poet Rilke
Julius Spier and Embodied
Knowing: sexuality, the erotic, and the spiritual
Jung, Analytical Psychology,
and Individuation: Divine force of healing within
Prayer, Judaism, and
Christianity
Etty's eclecticism -
spirituality, religion, and religions
Sexuality and Sainthood
3. Etty's struggle with gender, sexuality, marriage, and
motherhood
The evolution of her
relationship with S.: role reversal
Opening her heart
Spaciousness in her heart
"Broken my body"
4. Etty's Mysticism
The divine wordlessness