“Dosamantic” Narrative and Sexual Esotericism in Mexico
“Dosamantism” was a proposal of esoteric philosophy generated towards the last decade of the 19th century and the first of the 20th, whose main representative was Jesús Ceballos Dosamantes, who wrote some books of doctrinal exposition. His main disciple, Gonzalo Peña y Troncoso, continued the intell...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | (an)ecdótica |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/176 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas-filologicas.unam.mx/anEcdotica/index.php/anec/article/view/176 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Dosamantismo novela esotérica esoterismo sexual literatura mexicana Literatura y medicina esoterismo sexualidad en la literatura mexicana Esoteric novel Mexican literature sexual esotericism Medicine & literature estorism sexuality in Mexican literature |
| Sumario: | “Dosamantism” was a proposal of esoteric philosophy generated towards the last decade of the 19th century and the first of the 20th, whose main representative was Jesús Ceballos Dosamantes, who wrote some books of doctrinal exposition. His main disciple, Gonzalo Peña y Troncoso, continued the intellectual enterprise of his mentor, but he especially chose the literary register, publishing two novels: Blanca. Hija de la Luz and Celeste. Nuevos ideales, both from 1903. In them he aims to transmit the “dosamantic” ideology, in Blanca, through a realistic and anticlerical plot, and in Celeste, through an epistolary and sentimental novel that had four editions in the first half of the century past. Dosamantism sought a relatively more egalitarian erotic order among sexes, for which he resorted to notions of esoteric androgyny and an inclusion of physical and sexual component in the couple’s relationship, in a situation in which some esoteric currents in the West assigned to the sexual function a key role in the search Gnostic. |
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