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IMAGE AS THE ACT OF CONSOLATION. SOME REMARKS ON THE METAPHOR OF PASSAGE IN THE CLASSICAL LITERATURE (Obrazowanie jako pocieszenie. Kilka uwag o metaforze przejscia w literaturze klasycznej)

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Borowicz S.

Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)

2009

issue 1-2

77-93

The article deals with the problem of the Greek consciousness' limited ability to image certain abstract notions: abysm/chasm, death and the Underworld in the Classical period. The first part of the analysis, based on Greek classical literature sources, concerns the general problem of categorization and conceptualization of the idea of the Underworld which human consciousness was trying to seize by means of a metaphor 'to die is to pass'. The author argues that the ability of the human mind (gnome) to understand abstract notions metaphorically limits the idea of the Underworld simultaneously; it is a reversed reflection of the senses experienced during reality, which creates the anti-world of human visions of passage into a different space. Only the notion of chasm does not have its mirror image; however, it is still perceived as a part of the Greek kosmos (order). Being conceived as a physically existing space, it is frequently figured as a whale's barrel. The second part contains a detailed structural analysis of an old, drunken woman's figure being devoured by a whale which was introduced in Phrynichos' lost comedy. The example is to illustrate the mechanism in displaying abstract notions connected with the sphere of death which the Greek mind could only properly understand as the act of mimesis. Such a construction of the Underworld and chasm which was just an extension of the existing reality denoted the human desire to get rid of fear of emptiness. The image of the 'inexpressible' was, as a result, a mode of self-consolation.

Imagine perversa i tożsamość narracyjna. Kilka uwag o „obrazach niewłaściwych” z perspektywy kultur dawnych

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Borowicz S.

Konteksty - Polska Sztuka Ludowa

2014

vol. 68

issue 3-4(306-307)

320-334

Anus ebria is an image founded on anti-ideas, clichés that break or openly violate the cultural taboo, such as women’s drunkenness, sexual freedom, or emancipation from norms moulded by tradition. In its capacity as a jeering and comic “divulger” of norms and principles it becomes one of the more characteristic signs of the “eschatology of inebriation”. This is the case not so much of an “old drunk” as of an “old rebel”. In its visual and logistic dimension it assumes the form of a lascivious and old drunken woman, whose vulgar behaviour is a distinct reversal of the natural state of being desired by society.

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IMAGE AS THE ACT OF CONSOLATION. SOME REMARKS ON THE METAPHOR OF PASSAGE IN THE CLASSICAL LITERATURE (Obrazowanie jako pocieszenie. Kilka uwag o metaforze przejscia w literaturze klasycznej)

Imagine perversa i tożsamość narracyjna. Kilka uwag o „obrazach niewłaściwych” z perspektywy kultur dawnych