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Item Details
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IN AND OUT OF THE MIND
GREEK IMAGES OF THE TRAGIC SELF |
| By: |
Ruth Padel |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£33.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0691073791 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780691073798 |
| Publisher: |
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
23 June, 1992 |
| Pages: |
232 |
| Description: |
Arguing that Greek tragic language connects images of consciousness, even male consciousness, with the darkness attributed both to Hades and to women, Padel analyzes tragedy's biological and daemonological metaphors for what is within, and looks at the meaning of all human suffering. |
| Synopsis: |
The representations of mind in Greek tragedy are central to Western views of inwardness. Tragedy speaks of inwardness as woundable, dark, invaded by destructive passions. In this wide-ranging work Ruth Padel relates ancient tragedy to the biology and daemonology of the time, exploring Greek conceptions of the human interior and the ways in which Greek tragic literature shaped how we speak about our inner selves today. "In and Out of the Mind" reflects the cross-fertilization of the author's classical training with anthropology, history of religion and medicine, gender studies, and psychoanalysis. Arguing that Greek tragic language connects images of consciousness, even male consciousness, with the darkness attributed both to Hades and to women, Padel analyzes tragedy's biological and daemonological metaphors for what is within. Although these images are part of our inherited culture, their use in tragedy reveals attitudes toward feeling that are alien to modern readers.The author provides important background to fascinating aspects of Greek life, such as entrail divination, impurity rituals, and belief in divinity inside and outside human selves, showing how these relate to the Greek understanding of mind. Central to her discussion is the question of how and why all human beings, female and male, suffer. |
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US |
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Princeton University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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