The Space for Lovemaking in the Song of Songs
Resource type
Book Part
Status
Published
Recommended form of citation (APA)
Fischer, S. (2024). The Space for Lovemaking in the Song of Songs. In G. Fernandes, S. Fischer, & A. Potgieter (Hrsg.), Song of Songs in Sense, Sound and Space (S. 127-144). Sheffield Phoenix Press.
Author(s)
PHSG Organisation name
Project(s)
License Condition
All rights reserved
Proforis OA-status
metadata only (bibliographisch)
Topic PHSG
Ethik, Religionen, Gemeinschaft (ERG)
Subjects
Fields of Science and Technology (OECD)
Theology
Abstract
This essay explores spatial concepts in the Song of Songs. It starts with a threefold division of space: perceived space, conceived space and lived space based on Lefebvre’s spatial theory, which is applied to the Song of Songs. First, the perceived space, the physical space of the protagonists, is discussed. Second, the essay focuses on the conceived space, culture and ideology as experienced by the woman and the man. Public and pri- vate space is explored in its various locations, and it is pointed out how this shapes the relationship between the protagonists. Third, the lived space as the embodied experience of the perceived and conceived spaces is addressed. Here, the liminal spaces, those that are between private and public, are of particular importance. Here, the lived space experienced by the woman and the man expresses a supra-temporal moment that gives these texts a lasting appeal. This happens when the man crosses the boundary into the woman’s private space and loses his freedom through the wom- an’s eroticism. Here, lovemaking is the climax. The culturally conditioned allocation of roles merges into a new perceived unity, which is accompa- nied by metaphors of loss of control, of happiness, of consummation, and of drunkenness.
PHSG Organisation name
Project(s)
Access Rights
metadata only (bibliographisch)
License Condition
All rights reserved
Rights Holder
Publisher