Review of Light in the Dark / Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality by Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Imagine a theorist with the power to arrest, interrogate, revivify, and transform contemporary depth psychology.Now imagine that theorist emerging from outside of any academy or institute.Imagine that person as a self-described mestiza, queer, feminist, activist, and artist.Imagine your surprise to realize that, while her body of work has been deeply influential for decades within feminist, Chicana/o/x, and social justice circles, her name is rarely mentioned in Jungian/analytical and archetypal circles.This theorist, this protean shapeshifter, is Gloria E. Anzaldúa.Published eleven years after Anzaldúa's untimely death in 2004, Light in the Dark / Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality offers a stunning immersion into Anzaldúa's mature intellectual, spiritual, and creative powers.AnaLouise Keating, a close friend and colleague of Anzaldúa's, has assembled six chapters of theory, poetry, drawing, and incantation that would have comprised the heart of Anzaldúa's long-awaited doctoral dissertation had she lived long enough to complete it.From the start of her influential career, she was resistant to formally align herself with any institution, discipline, or way of thinking, nonetheless Anzaldúa was deeply influenced by the work of C.G. Jung, and especially by that of James Hillman.The ways in which depth psychological thought shaped Anzaldúa's work, beginning with her groundbreaking Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987), have been noted by scholars (and by Anzaldúa herself) for over thirty years.What is missing, however, is a full recognition of Anzaldúa's own power to shape a contemporary and inclusive depth psychology for our inexorably interconnected, multicultural, and wounded twenty-first century.Light in the Dark / Luz en lo Oscuro offers an extraordinary opportunity for the commencement of this task.In her preface, Anzaldúa made clear her allegiance to imagination, the imaginal, and to the image itself: I'm guided by the spirit of the image.My naguala (daimon or guiding spirit) is an inner sensibility that directs my life-an image, an action, or an internal experience.My imagination and my naguala are connected-they are aspects of the same process, of creativity. . . .
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".