@article{ART001346338},
author={김동규},
title={Melancholy - The Power of the image creation : in the focus of Aristotles "Problems"},
journal={Philosophical Investigation},
issn={1598-7213},
year={2009},
volume={25},
pages={119-149},
doi={10.33156/philos.2009.25..005}
TY - JOUR
AU - 김동규
TI - Melancholy - The Power of the image creation : in the focus of Aristotles "Problems"
JO - Philosophical Investigation
PY - 2009
VL - 25
IS - null
PB - Institute of philosophy in Chung-Ang Univ.
SP - 119
EP - 149
SN - 1598-7213
AB - This paper will reveal which relations are there between image and melancholy, which was described in Aristotle's Problems Ⅱ, Book ⅩⅩⅩ, on the ground of the etymological previous-understanding about image. Thus I would like to demonstrate how melancholy can become the power of (artistic) image creation. First of all, we will examine the text, which was the origin of melancholy-discussion. Thus we can consider the intrinsic relations between melancholy and artistic image. Finally, we can compensate with this study the incomplete interpretation about metaphorical image creation, which was unable to be explained until now in the Aristotle's Poetics.
Aristotle argued that all outstanding philosophers and artists were melancholic. According to him, the excess of melancholy(black bile, atra bilis, μέλαινα χολή, μελαγχολία) is a necessary condition for the culture making genius(of course it is not a sufficient condition). He explained the melancholy phenomenon by analogy with wine, and suggested that melancholy was a passion of love, referring to motifs i.e. wine, dionysus, aphrodite, heat etc. Excessive affection toward the lost loved-object gives rise to make image in order to substitute for it and it brings a long image chain that normal mind state can not reach. Well-knownly is for Aristotle the metaphor a sign of the genius. Through our study is interpreted the genius a melancholic temperament, which flow the excessive black bile in body and it is a well-mixed condition of the abnormality of black bile and it is the black passion of love. The original artistic image is a good example to use excessive melancholy creatively. Therefore the dark shadow of enthusiastic love, that the melancholy symbolized, is the power of the image creation.
KW - Melancholy;Metaphor;Image;Love;Genius;Abnormality
DO - 10.33156/philos.2009.25..005
ER -
김동규. (2009). Melancholy - The Power of the image creation : in the focus of Aristotles "Problems". Philosophical Investigation, 25, 119-149.
김동규. 2009, "Melancholy - The Power of the image creation : in the focus of Aristotles "Problems"", Philosophical Investigation, vol.25, pp.119-149. Available from: doi:10.33156/philos.2009.25..005
김동규 "Melancholy - The Power of the image creation : in the focus of Aristotles "Problems"" Philosophical Investigation 25 pp.119-149 (2009) : 119.
김동규. Melancholy - The Power of the image creation : in the focus of Aristotles "Problems". 2009; 25 119-149. Available from: doi:10.33156/philos.2009.25..005
김동규. "Melancholy - The Power of the image creation : in the focus of Aristotles "Problems"" Philosophical Investigation 25(2009) : 119-149.doi: 10.33156/philos.2009.25..005
김동규. Melancholy - The Power of the image creation : in the focus of Aristotles "Problems". Philosophical Investigation, 25, 119-149. doi: 10.33156/philos.2009.25..005
김동규. Melancholy - The Power of the image creation : in the focus of Aristotles "Problems". Philosophical Investigation. 2009; 25 119-149. doi: 10.33156/philos.2009.25..005
김동규. Melancholy - The Power of the image creation : in the focus of Aristotles "Problems". 2009; 25 119-149. Available from: doi:10.33156/philos.2009.25..005
김동규. "Melancholy - The Power of the image creation : in the focus of Aristotles "Problems"" Philosophical Investigation 25(2009) : 119-149.doi: 10.33156/philos.2009.25..005
