Para una teología del fantasma: la mística de María de San José

Abstract

This article starts from Michel de Certeau’s consideration of mystic as a “ghost theology”, and connects, from the stories of convent life written in the colony (specially the ones of the Mexican María de San José), the notions of mourning and melancholy with the divine appearances and corporal mortifications, that these tales describe, in order to highlitght the subjective and individual dimension of this experience. It also revises the confessor’s function behind this “disorders”, vigilant and inquistoirial on the one hand, and repairing and pacifier on the other.