In and Out of the Mind
Greek Images of the Tragic Self
1st Edition
Published on 24. October 2016
230 pages
978-1-4008-8432-2 (ISBN)
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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.
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Ruth Padel, recently Visiting Professor in the Modern Greek Program at Princeton University, has taught classics at the University of Oxford and the University of London. She is the author of two books of poems and of Whom Gods Destroy: Elements of Greek and Tragic Madness.
Content
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Ch. 1 Introduction: The Divinity of Inside and Outside 3
Ch. 2 Innards 12
Entrails: Learning, Feeling, Dividing 12
Heart, Liver, Phrenes, Inner Liquids 18
"Spirit," "Soul," "Mind" 27
Metaphor and "Anatomical Details" 33
Concreteness of the Innards: Poroi and Pre-Socratics 40
Insight into Disunity 44
Ch. 3 Disease and Divination: Knowing the Causes of Pain 49
External and Internal Forces of Disease 49
Channels to the Soul: The Vulnerability of Sight and Hearing 59
Inner Movement: Source of Knowledge, Sign of Pain 65
Black Prophetic Innards 68
Discourse of Darkness 75
Ch. 4 The Flux of Feeling 78
Death, Sleep, Dream, and Underground Rivers 78
Flow and Storm 81
Breaths of Passion 88
Ch. 5 Inner World, Underworld, and Gendered Images of "Mind" 99
"Mind," Earth, Womb, Hades 99
Inner Impurities and Emissions: "Good" Turned "Bad" 102
The Mainly Female "Mind" 106
Ch. 6 The Zoology and Daemonology of Emotion 114
Daemonic Weather, Wind, Fire 114
Goads, Whips, Pursuit 117
Biting, Eating 119
Oistros, Poison, Snakes, Dogs 120
The Mobile Adversary One Cannot Fight 125
The Aerial Terrorist 129
These Inner Wounds Are Real 132
The Alternative: Growth Within 134
Ch. 7 Animal, Daimon: Bringers of Death and Definition 138
Nonhuman: What We Defend Ourselves Against 138
Animal Weaponry 141
Using Animal Is Using Daimon 144
Nonhuman Definition of the Human 147
Gods' Weapons 152
Personifications 157
States of Mind: Multiple, Daemonic, Female 159
Ch. 8 Blood in the Mind 162
Ate, Lyssa: Madness Personified 162
Epic Erinyes 164
Tragic Erinyes: Damage "from the Ground" 168
Blood, Murder, Madness 172
Erinyes Seen 179
The Most Polluted Day 182
Erinyes Unseen 185
Where the Terrible Is Good 189
Works Cited 193
Index 205
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Ch. 1 Introduction: The Divinity of Inside and Outside 3
Ch. 2 Innards 12
Entrails: Learning, Feeling, Dividing 12
Heart, Liver, Phrenes, Inner Liquids 18
"Spirit," "Soul," "Mind" 27
Metaphor and "Anatomical Details" 33
Concreteness of the Innards: Poroi and Pre-Socratics 40
Insight into Disunity 44
Ch. 3 Disease and Divination: Knowing the Causes of Pain 49
External and Internal Forces of Disease 49
Channels to the Soul: The Vulnerability of Sight and Hearing 59
Inner Movement: Source of Knowledge, Sign of Pain 65
Black Prophetic Innards 68
Discourse of Darkness 75
Ch. 4 The Flux of Feeling 78
Death, Sleep, Dream, and Underground Rivers 78
Flow and Storm 81
Breaths of Passion 88
Ch. 5 Inner World, Underworld, and Gendered Images of "Mind" 99
"Mind," Earth, Womb, Hades 99
Inner Impurities and Emissions: "Good" Turned "Bad" 102
The Mainly Female "Mind" 106
Ch. 6 The Zoology and Daemonology of Emotion 114
Daemonic Weather, Wind, Fire 114
Goads, Whips, Pursuit 117
Biting, Eating 119
Oistros, Poison, Snakes, Dogs 120
The Mobile Adversary One Cannot Fight 125
The Aerial Terrorist 129
These Inner Wounds Are Real 132
The Alternative: Growth Within 134
Ch. 7 Animal, Daimon: Bringers of Death and Definition 138
Nonhuman: What We Defend Ourselves Against 138
Animal Weaponry 141
Using Animal Is Using Daimon 144
Nonhuman Definition of the Human 147
Gods' Weapons 152
Personifications 157
States of Mind: Multiple, Daemonic, Female 159
Ch. 8 Blood in the Mind 162
Ate, Lyssa: Madness Personified 162
Epic Erinyes 164
Tragic Erinyes: Damage "from the Ground" 168
Blood, Murder, Madness 172
Erinyes Seen 179
The Most Polluted Day 182
Erinyes Unseen 185
Where the Terrible Is Good 189
Works Cited 193
Index 205
