St Teresa, Mysticism and 'That's Not It'

Where can we place a discussion about the mystic while trying also to balance the intuitive and the sensible? In his seminar Encore, Lacan devotes some thought to this area and on this I dwell for this paper. '"That's not it" is the very cry by which jouissance obtained is distinguished from the jouissance expected'[1] Lacan is involved here in a via negativa, the way of what is, by what it is not.…