Sainthood as Selfhood: The Dramatic Art of Becoming Holy

Abstract

A problematic of being and consciousness is rerouted from the onset toward illocution, that is, toward a dialogal structure of alteration—“you are the other of yourself.” The soul becomes the place in which that separation of the self from itself prompts a hospitality . . . that makes room for the other. And because that “other” is infinite, the soul is an infinite space in which to enter and receive visitors.3