In and Out of the Mind :Greek Images of the Tragic Self

Publication subTitle :Greek Images of the Tragic Self

Author: Padel Ruth  

Publisher: Princeton University Press‎

Publication year: 2016

E-ISBN: 9781400884322

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691037660

Subject: J8 Dramatic

Keyword: 戏剧艺术

Language: ENG

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Description

Ruth Padel explores Greek conceptions of human innerness and the way in which Greek tragedy shaped European notions of mind and self. Arguing that Greek poetic language connects images of consciousness, even male consciousness, with the darkness attributed to Hades and to women, Padel analyzes tragedy's biological and daemonological metaphors for what is within.

Chapter

Heart, Liver, Phrenes, Inner Liquids

“Spirit,” “Soul,” “Mind”

Metaphor and “Anatomical Details”

Concreteness of the Innards: Poroi and Pre-Socratics

Insight into Disunity

CHAPTER 3 Disease and Divination: Knowing the Causes of Pain

External and Internal Forces of Disease

Channels to the Soul: The Vulnerability of Sight and Hearing

Inner Movement: Source of Knowledge, Sign of Pain

Black Prophetic Innards

Discourse of Darkness

CHAPTER 4 The Flux of Feeling

Death, Sleep, Dreams, and Underground Rivers

Flow and Storm

Breaths of Passion

CHAPTER 5 Inner World, Underworld, and Gendered Images of “Mind”

“Mind,” Earth, Womb, Hades

Inner Impurities and Emissions: “Good” Turned “Bad”

The Mainly Female "Mind"

CHAPTER 6 The Zoology and Daemonology of Emotion

Daemonic Weather, Wind, Fire

Goads, Whips, Pursuit

Biting, Eating

Oistros, Poison, Snakes, Dogs

The Mobile Adversary One Cannot Fight

The Aerial Terrorist

These Inner Wounds Are Real

The Alternative: Growth Within

CHAPTER 7 Animal, Daimōn: Bringers of Death and Definition

Nonhuman: What We Defend Ourselves Against

Animal Weaponry

Using Animal Is Using Daimōn

Nonhuman Definition of the Human

Gods’ Weapons

Personifications

States of Mind: Multiple, Daemonic, Female

CHAPTER 8 Blood in the Mind

Ate, Lyssa: Madness Personified

Epic Erinyes

Tragic Erinyes: Damage “from the Ground”

Blood, Murder, Madness

Erinyes Seen

The Most Polluted Day

Erinyes Unseen

Where the Terrible Is Good

Works Cited

Index

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