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