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The present research traces the ideas of madness and divine madness, together with their differences and similarities, through the Black Books of Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist Carl G. Jung (1875-1961). The Black Books, which were published in 2020, are the manuscript notebooks in which Jung documented his fantasies between 1913 and 1932 ...
The divine madness (1000 BC) - In antiquity, around 1000 BC people did not think of “madness” in terms of mental illness, but in terms of divine punishment or demonic possession. Evidence for this comes from the Old Testament and most notably from the First Book of Samuel, according to which King Saul became “mad” after neglecting his ...
Feb 14, 2018 · Appealing to the cultural and religious traditions of his time, Socrates suggests that love is a form of divine madness. To illustrate the concept of divine madness, consider that the etymology of the word “enthusiasm” tells us the word comes from the Greek “enthousiasmós,” which literally means to be possessed by a god. The idea is ...
Jan 1, 2013 · Abstract Hermias of Alexandria (5th cent. A.D.) wrote down the lectures given on the Phaedrus by his teacher Syrianus, Head of the Neoplatonic School of Athens. In the preserved text the Platonic distinction of madness is presented in a Neoplatonic way. In the first section of the article we discuss Hermias’ treatment of possession. The philosopher examines four topics in his effort to ...
Feb 20, 2004 · The love that is divine madness is a good thing, therefore, especially when, “accompanied by philosophical discussions (erôta meta philosophôn logôn)” (257b6), it leads to the beautiful itself and the other forms, which are what we—as most of all the rational element in our souls—truly love and crave. The question is what makes a ...
Jan 29, 2015 · Divine Madness: a History of Schizophrenia. The label schizophrenia is a recent term, first used in 1908 by Eugen Bleuler, a Swiss psychiatrist, and was meant to describe the disunity of functioning between personality, perception, thinking and memory. Whilst the label is new, accounts of schizophrenia-like symptoms can be found in ancient ...
