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Anales galdosianos [Publicaciones periódicas]. Año XII, 1977<br />

una forma perfecta... tenían misteriosa virtud, como su cuerpo y ropa, para poder decir a las capas<br />

inferiores del mundo físico: ' la vostra miseria non mi tange '. Llevaba en toda su persona la<br />

impresión de un aseo intrínseco, elemental, superior y anterior a cualquier contacto de cosa desaseada<br />

o impura... » (p. 1542)<br />

The second stage of feminine development is, in effect, a kind of awakening to consciousness, the<br />

first awareness of self. In Jungian terms:<br />

the second stage of feminine development still is focused on the containing uroborus, but it is invaded<br />

by the paternal and hence dominated by the Great Father archetype. The masculine is experienced as<br />

an anonymous, transpersonal and overpowering numinosum , completely other than ego, thereby<br />

making the ego conscious of its own limits. The image of divinity now appears as a male figure<br />

and first emerges mythologically as power groups of demonic masculine characters... A woman<br />

experiences this invading masculine, carried by a man or by the animus, as a transpersonal ravishing<br />

penetrator, who breaks into her consciousness, overpowers her, transports her outside of herself,<br />

connects her to her own instinctual nature, and fundamentally changes her personality. 172<br />

The moment of Tristana's awakening to consciousness of self occurs shortly after she has come to<br />

live with Don Lope. More importantly, it also coincides with the moment of Don Lope's seduction of<br />

his innocent ward. Don Lope ravishes Tristana, an act which sets in motion an unconscious process<br />

which eight months later bursts forth into her conscious mind. As the narrator describes it:<br />

Este despertar de Tristana no era más que una fase de la crisis profunda que hubo de sufrir a los ocho<br />

meses, aproximadamente, de su deshonra, y cuando cumplía los veintidós años. Hasta entonces la hija<br />

de Reluz, atrasadilla en su desarrollo moral, había sido toda irreflexión y pasividad muñequil, sin ideas<br />

propias, viviendo de las proyecciones del pensar ajeno, y con una docilidad tal en sus sentimientos,<br />

que era muy fácil evocarlos en la forma y con la intención que se quisiera. Pero vinieron días en que<br />

su mente floreció de improviso, como planta vivaz a la que le llega un buen día de primavera, y se<br />

llenó de ideas, en apretados capullos primero, en espléndidos ramilletes después.<br />

(p. 1548)<br />

It is a moment in which Tristana issues her own Cartesian declaration of existence. « Aquí estoy.<br />

¿No ves cómo pienso cosas grandes? » she declares. (p. 1549) But the declaration of existence must<br />

also be a declaration of independence, for as the narrator explains, « a medida que se cambiaba en<br />

172 Ibid. , p. 246.<br />

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