The Sleep of Reason: Sleep and the Philosophical Soul in Ancient Greece

IF 0.9 2区 历史学 0 CLASSICS
V. Wohl
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Abstract

Freud tracked the psyche along the paths of sleep, following the “royal road” of dreams. For the ancient Greeks, too, the psyche was revealed in sleep, not through the semiotics of dreams but through the peculiar state of being we occupy while asleep. As a “borderland between living and not living” (as Aristotle puts it), sleep offered unique access to the psukhē, that element within the self unassimilable to waking consciousness. This paper examines how Greek philosophers theorized the sleep state and the somnolent psukhē, focusing on Heraclitus, Plato, and Aristotle. Each of the three attempts to reclaim sleep for waking life and to join the sleeping soul to the philosophical self. But that attempt never fully succeeds. Instead sleep consistently emerges as a philosophical blindspot, a state that—unlike dreams—cannot be spoken by philosophy's logos nor fully illuminated by philosophical analysis.
理性的睡眠:古希腊的睡眠与哲学灵魂
弗洛伊德沿着睡眠的路径,沿着梦的“皇家之路”追踪精神。对于古希腊人来说,心灵也在睡眠中被揭示出来,不是通过梦的符号学,而是通过我们在睡眠中所处的特殊状态。正如亚里士多德所说,作为“活着和不活着之间的边界”,睡眠提供了通往psukhu的独特途径,psukhu是自我内部无法与清醒意识同化的元素。本文考察了希腊哲学家如何将睡眠状态和困倦的psukhu理论化,重点是赫拉克利特、柏拉图和亚里士多德。这三本书都试图让清醒的生命重新获得睡眠,并将沉睡的灵魂与哲学的自我联系起来。但这一尝试从未完全成功。相反,睡眠一直是哲学的盲点,一种不像梦的状态,不能用哲学的逻各斯来描述,也不能用哲学的分析来充分阐明。
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