Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art

Rowe, Kenneth E.; Butcher, Sam; Gassner, John

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“…Put another way, “from these ‘phantasms’ or representations of the imagination the intellect abstracts its ideas or universal concepts. Without the imagination the intellect cannot work through lack of matter” (Butcher 1951, 126). Contrary to our contemporary understanding, phantasy occupied a central role in the Classical episteme, allowing for the possibility of a quasi‐unity between thought and world.…”

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A Brief Hystery of the Phantasm

Santiago¹

2022

Anthropol of Consciousness

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This article traces the radical devaluation of the phantasm throughout Western civilization. With the help of Nietzsche’s critical perspective, I develop a notion of hystery as the series of collective traumas repeated in each individual’s growth, whereby the phantasm changes value from psychosomatic interface, to evil incarnate, to disease of learning. Beginning with the Classical episteme represented by Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics, then moving up through the Christian era, I focus primarily on Enlightenment thinkers such as Hobbes and Bacon, who represent the last nail in the imagination’s coffin. The next section examines Nietzsche’s rediscovery of the phantasm and the theoretical contributions of post‐structuralism that follow in Nietzsche’s wake. Juxtaposing Bataille and Deleuze, I look at Deleuze’s early enthusiasm and ultimate betrayal of the phantasm, and I posit Bataille’s emphasis on the affective force of the mythological phantasm as an insurrection to reclaim our experience and life along with it. The article ends with speculation, offering Bruno’s art of memory as an ontic and epistemic alternative to dominant Western hystery, other pasts opening to other possible futures, an ungrounding that paradoxically leads to a restoration of the human house in a re‐enchanted cosmos.

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Section: There Is No Thought Without a Phantasmmentioning

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A Brief Hystery of the Phantasm

Santiago¹

2022

Anthropol of Consciousness

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Some Notes On Euripides' Cyclops

Seaford

1975

The Class. Q.

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L has …, P … Paley wanted to delete Subsequent editors did not take up the suggestion. J. Diggle on the other hand has proposed that was originally a gloss on ‘It would be no cause for surprise that a scribe who had never seen the like of Homer's (Il. 4. 189) should fuse the two versions by distributing the two in what he thought a fair and impartial manner.’ Diggle arrives at The metre is tidied up, the corruption explained. But would be unique in Euripides. is the Euripidean Greek for ‘O dear one’. For ‘O dear Hector’ he writes (Tro. 673). If he did want to create here by repetition a sense of there is no reason why he should not have written what is in L; compare Tro. 1081 , Su. 278 and Andr. 530

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Metaphor: A review of the psychological literature.

Billow¹

1977

Psychological Bulletin

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Metaphor supplies a language with flexibility, expressibility, and a method by which to expand. It contributes to the functioning of cognition, language, memory, and creativity. Learning and mediational theories account for metaphor creation on a sensory basis (a) as an example of mediation by physical similarity between stimuli or (b) by response similarity between different empirical modes. Nativistic theories posit internally based processes such as physiognomic perception cr intersensory characteristics of individual sense modalties. A nonconscious basis of metaphor is postulated by psychodynamic theories. In addition to inexperience with the weaker normal aspect of word meaning, syncretism and physiognomic perception might partially account for younger children's relative concreteness in comprehension. However, recent studies suggest that comprehension and production of rudimentary forms of metaphor appear in early childhood. Given the scarcity of systematic investigation, it is not clear whether metaphor is a special form of response or whether it can be subsumed under a general psychological theory, such as learning, cognitive development, or psychoanalysis.

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Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art

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A Brief Hystery of the Phantasm

A Brief Hystery of the Phantasm

Some Notes On Euripides' Cyclops

Metaphor: A review of the psychological literature.

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