Bread of Dreams: Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Europe

Camporesi, Piero

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“…These words of Georges Bataille (capital letters are his own) were written in an appendix of L'éxperience interieur [12], a mystical journey to the limits of human possibilities in which the human spirit lays itself bare by going without cheating toward the unknown. Bataille's statement is a paradoxical one (at least) as human history has always been ravaged by famine and tormented by hunger [13]. This statement was conceived by Bataille in times of global crisis (the essay was originally published in 1943 during II WW) and remains difficult to share in times (like our own) of collapse in food supply and price increases of the key commodities such as wheat, corn, and oil seeds, and of energy crisis, causing further food shortfalls and price increases [14].…”

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Homo dissipans: Excess and Expenditure as Keys for Understanding the Borderline Condition?

Stanghellini

2023

Psychopathology

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This paper sheds light on some aspects of what contemporary clinical theory calls “borderline” condition providing a description of a key figure of late-modern culture that I will call Homo dissipans (from Latin dissipatio, -onis = scattering, dispersion). Homo dissipans is the opposite of Homo œconomicus, the form that “narcissism” takes on in contemporary “achievement society,” solely concerned with rational action aimed to utility and production. In order to define Homo dissipans, I follow French philosopher, anthropologist, and novelist Georges Bataille’s descriptions of two core phenomena: “excess” and “expenditure.” The former can be defined as a surplus of energy that according to Bataille characterizes human existence, animated by a general movement of exudation and dilapidation and an inexhaustible drive to “pour out” of oneself, especially outside the limits of composure and reasonableness. The latter is an ethical attitude which gives its approval to excess and to its metamorphic and destructive power. The Homo dissipans’ credo is to profitlessly dissipate the surplus of energy, escape into a world of pure intensities in which all forms – including identity – dissolve and surrender themselves to transformation. I argue that Bataille’s ideas about “dissipation” can help us reconsider two features attributed to borderline personality disorder which have been extensively described and sometimes stigmatized – “identity diffusion” and “stable instability” – and to better recognize, understand, and make sense of their phenomenology in the clinical context.

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Homo dissipans: Excess and Expenditure as Keys for Understanding the Borderline Condition?

Stanghellini

2023

Psychopathology

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The 1549 Rebellions and the Making of Early Modern England

Wood

2007

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This is a major study of the 1549 rebellions, the largest and most important risings in Tudor England. Based upon extensive archival evidence, the book sheds fresh light on the causes, course and long-term consequences of the insurrections. Andy Wood focuses on key themes in the social history of politics, concerning the end of medieval popular rebellion; the Reformation and popular politics; popular political language; early modern state formation; speech, silence and social relations; and social memory and the historical representation of the rebellions. He examines the long-term significance of the rebellions for the development of English society, arguing that the rebellions represent an important moment of discontinuity between the late medieval and the early modern periods. This compelling history of Tudor politics from the bottom up will be essential reading for late medieval and early modern historians as well as early modern literary critics.

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The Production of Human Security in Premodern and Contemporary History

Zwierlein

Graf

2010

Historical Social Research Vol. 35

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Bread of Dreams: Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Europe

Cited by 11 publications

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Homo dissipans: Excess and Expenditure as Keys for Understanding the Borderline Condition?

Homo dissipans: Excess and Expenditure as Keys for Understanding the Borderline Condition?

The 1549 Rebellions and the Making of Early Modern England

The Production of Human Security in Premodern and Contemporary History

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