| Summary: | In the mystical experience, the body is what is most intimate, and a stranger at the same time. The body is somehow “expropriated” from itself and placed in an Other situation. Relying on the approaches of Jacques Lacan and Michel de Certeau, Jean-Daniel Causse shows first that the mystical can slip into insanity: the subject is then delivered to an Other without limit and without rules. Still, one should not dismiss too quickly some mystical attitudes which, through symptoms, attempt at saying something of a subjective truth. The mystical is essentially a device aiming at a starkness of the self, that is, a radical destitution of all imaginary attributes, in order to give a new status to that lack one needs to remain faithful to. Lack therefore allows for productive recompositions of the body. After this second step in the development, the article goes on to show that the mystical discourse is in the image of the body: forever lacking, it pursues an impossible-to-say and thus generates a language which is as inventive as it is proliferating.
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