From National Catholicism to Romantic Love: The Politics of Love and Divorce in Franco's Spain

Contemporary European History ◽

10.1017/s0960777321000515 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-13

Author(s):

Mónica García-Fernández

Keyword(s):

Romantic Love ◽

Catholic Theology ◽

National Catholicism ◽

Franco Dictatorship ◽

Politics Of Love

In the early 1970s, when the Franco dictatorship (1939–75) was coming to an end, some Catholic intellectuals began to defend people's right to end their failed marriages and seek happiness with a new partner. In so doing, they recognised that love was the primary purpose of marriage; if it was absent the union ceased to be valid. These intellectuals thus broke with a discourse that had until then been deep-seated in both Catholic theology and Francoist morals and laws. According to these, love was only a secondary end of marriage and the conjugal union was indissoluble, leaving people no choice but to tolerate it if it was an unhappy one.

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Marriage and Sexuality

The Oxford Handbook of Catholic Theology ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199566273.013.31 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 309-328

Author(s):

David Cloutier

Keyword(s):

Vatican Ii ◽

Romantic Love ◽

Second Vatican Council ◽

Catholic Theology ◽

Vatican Council ◽

The Family ◽

Catholic Tradition ◽

The Church

This chapter considers Catholic teaching on marriage and sexuality. It begins by considering tensions concerning marriage in Catholic theology since the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II). Attempts to move beyond primarily juridical accounts of marriage have been fruitful and have led to an overvaluation of modern notions of romantic love and the person. Against this tendency the chapter discusses how theologies of marriage attentive to the teaching of Vatican II—and of prior Catholic tradition—place the notion of marriage squarely within the sacramental life of the Church. Marriage is conceived as revealing and furthering the divine plan for humanity. Within this context the chapter explores recent magisterial pronouncements and work by theologians on the place of the family or the household within the Church. This exploration leads back to a reimagining of the spousal bond.

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Between modernity and tradition: the formation of a psychoanalytical culture during the Franco dictatorship

Culture & History Digital Journal ◽

10.3989/chdj.2021.008 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. e008

Author(s):

Silvia Lévy Lazcano

Keyword(s):

Popular Culture ◽

Social Context ◽

Mass Media ◽

Modern Theory ◽

Cultural Framework ◽

National Catholicism ◽

Franco Dictatorship ◽

Do So

The aim of this work is to analyze the process by which psychoanalysis categories joined scientific and popular culture in Francoism. To do so, we will start with the criticism and reinterpretations that different experts did on Freud’s theory to adapt it to the new political-social context. This analysis will allow us to show how reappropriation and signification of a progressive and modern theory was achieved based on the doctrinal principles of national-Catholicism. From here on, we will analyze the incorporation of psychoanalytic language and ideas into several mass media, confirming the consolidation of psychoanalysis as a cultural framework in Spain.

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Introduction

Fighting Fascist Spain ◽

10.5622/illinois/9780252043246.003.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-22

Author(s):

Montse Feu

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

New York ◽

Spanish Civil War ◽

Critical Role ◽

The United States ◽

Francisco Franco ◽

Cultural Legacy ◽

National Catholicism ◽

Democratic Elections ◽

Franco Dictatorship

At the turn of the twentieth century, Spanish workers arrived in the United States already imbued with radical traditions rooted in the socialism or anarchism of their homeland. These radicals would play a critical role in the broader antifascist political efforts of the coming years during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) and the Francisco Franco dictatorship (1939–1975). About two hundred workers’ and immigrant associations came together under the Sociedades Hispanas Confederadas (Confederation of Hispanic Societies, SHC) and published the bilingual periodical España Libre (Free Spain) in New York from 1939 to 1977, when democratic elections were held again in Spain. The confederation grew to 65,000 members at its height. Mainly composed by workers, the Confederadas understood Spanish fascism as a complex and adapting interlocking of fascist, extreme-right, and capitalist values. Franco fascistized Spain with a culture of National Catholicism and cult of military power that enforced social cleansing of dissenters and terrorized the population. España Libre continued an antifascist, progressive, and radical political and cultural legacy in the United States while Franco intended to destroy it in Spain. It constituted an alternative progressive path to modernity, albeit an exiled one.

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Tradición, modernidad y transgresión en las artes escénicas españolas durante el franquismo: Víctor Cortezo y la escenografía de La cena del rey Baltasar (1939-1954) = Tradition, Modernity and Transgression during Francoism: Víctor Cortezo and the Scenography of La Cena del Rey Baltasar (1939-1945)

Espacio Tiempo y Forma Serie VII Historia del Arte ◽

10.5944/etfvii.6.2018.21863 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 389

Author(s):

Raquel López Fernández

Keyword(s):

Performing Arts ◽

Autos Sacramentales ◽

National Catholicism ◽

Franco Dictatorship

Los autos sacramentales gozaron durante el “primer franquismo” de una segunda época de esplendor relacionada con su poder propagandístico. Su conexión con el Imperio, su evocación de un pasado glorioso y su exaltación político-religiosa los asociaban con las principales directrices de la ideología nacionalcatólica imperante. Representados en distintos actos de la dictadura, algunos de ellos, como los decorados por el pintor Víctor Cortezo, presentan características controvertidas que pueden ser explicadas por su vínculo con una modernidad pocas veces planteada para el arte de ese período. Las creaciones de este artista ponen de relieve la capacidad transgresora de las artes escénicas dentro de la más férrea oficialidad de la dictadura franquista.The Autos sacramentales reached their second splendour period during the “first Francoism”, given their propagandist power. Their connections to the Empire, their evocation of a glorious past, and their political and religious resonances associated them with the prevailing National Catholicism. These were played in several of the dictatorship official acts, and some of them, such as those with sceneries created by painter Victor Cortezo, introduce some controversial features which have linked their art to a modernity which was rarely seen during this period. The painter’s creations also highlight the performing arts’ capacity of transgression within the strictness of the Franco dictatorship.

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