Abstract

MIRANDA MEDINA, María. The Eye in the Water: Doubles and Transformation in the Divine Narcissus’ Loa and Auto. Lit. mex [online]. 2023, vol.34, n.1, pp.9-42.  Epub Feb 13, 2023. ISSN 2448-8216.  https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.litmex.2022.34.1.7900s42x1.

In the following text, I seek to analyze the Divine Narcissus’s loa and auto by finding correspondences between them through the image of water and two fundamental concepts: the Unknown God of Saint Paul mentioned in the loa, and baptism which appears in the loa and finally materializes in the auto. I will address how sor Juana is constantly subverting the notion of “image and likeliness” and the way in which this concept travels from the loa’s analogy between the Eucharist and the Teocualo to the auto’s mirroring relationship between Narcissus and Human Nature. Lastly, I will try to demonstrate how the author constructs the auto as a perfect love story with two possible versions that become one: unrequited love (Eco and Narcissus) and the consummation of love (Narcissus and Human Nature), transforming the auto into an evocation of the Eucharist.

Keywords : sor Juana; Divine Narcissus; water; the unknown God; image and likeliness; transformation.

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