The paper considers the intersection of cultural models of emotion, specifically love and envy, with folk and scientific models of vision in Greek antiquity. Though the role of the eyes in the ...expression of these emotions can intersect with widespread beliefs in vision as a 'haptic', material process, analogous to touch, none the less the emotional concepts resist absorption into a single over-arching theory of the physical effects of seeing and being seen. The specific cultural models of vision ('active', 'passive', and 'interactive') are enlisted in support of cultural models of emotion where they fit, modified where they fit less well, and ignored when they do not fit at all.
Simulacrum ljubezni Maja Sunčič
Keria: Studia Latina et Graeca,
12/2003, Letnik:
5, Številka:
2
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Žalovanje zaradi odsotnosti ljubljene osebe pri Admetu in Laodameji povzroči postopno razpadanje, zato si izmislita figurico izgubljene osebe. Nadomestek nudi hladno ugodje, hkrati pa Admeta in ...Laodamejo ogroža, saj sta soočena z dejstvom, da je figurica ljubljene(ga) zgolj utvara. Spol pomembno določa razplet, saj je Alkestidin simulacrum obenem talisman, medtem ko Laodamejo spoznanje utvare prisili v samomor, ker ji kot ženski nadomestek ne zadostuje. Spolna delitev vpliva tudi na funkcijo figurice kot fetiša oziroma kot dobrega objekta, saj družba moškemu nadomestku ne odreka, medtem ko ga ženski vzamejo in uničijo. Figurica predstavlja materializacijo nevidne ljubljene osebe, ki začasno omogoči, da se Laodameja in Admet z ljubeznijo ubranita pred smrtjo.
Initiation (muvhsh) was the first stage of the ancient mysteries celebrating Demeter, the earth-goddess, and her daughter Kore, soon identified with Persephone or Persephasa, a pre-Greek deity of the ...underworld. Next came the stage of contemplation (ejpopteiva), at which worshippers were shown a vision of the goddess of Hades. This led them to identify themselves with her, thus reaching the highest form of happiness. The Eleusinian Mysteries were inseparably linked to the Orphic doctrine, which in its turn influenced the thought of Plato. Plato sees love as an object of initiation and as one of the greatest mysteries of human existence. Plato’s dialogues, Phaedrus and Symposium, contain expressions borrowed directly from the vocabulary of the Mysteries. Although neither Socrates in Phaedrus nor Diotima in Symposium make any explicit reference to the mystic ceremonies, it is certain that both allude to them in expounding the mysteries of spiritual life. The latter has to start at the stage of physical love in order to end up in the contemplation of Ideas. The mystery into which Socrates is initiated by Diotima is the following there is a mystic stairway leading from the earth to the sky, from man to God. It is made visible by Love, and its steps are represented by different kinds of beauty. The ascent is a gradual one, with a long stop at each of the stages. In this way Love, disciplined by philosophy and spiritualised by increasing de-personalisation, ends up in the Intellectual, conceiving the latter with an intuitive insight. By this spiritual process, one is purified, led to the road of salvation and enabled to participate in the Divine.
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