This chapter discusses Sylvia Leclercq’s fascination with mysticism in Julia Kristeva’s novel Teresa, My Love: An Imagined Life of the Saint of Avila . Sylvia, a psychoanalyst and academic, like Kristeva herself, ponders the question of female mysticism throughout the historical novel. She knows that Freud was dismissive of mysticism, which he called the “oceanic” feeling. Kristeva offers us a...