"从我的大脑之门而出":威廉-布莱克的 Partus Mentis 与想象力的再生

Humanities Pub Date : 2024-07-23 DOI:10.3390/h13040099
Annalisa Volpone
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Partus mentis(心灵的分娩)汇集了浪漫主义文化和意识形态的以下两个重要方面:对人类生成的探索,以及想象力如何形成思想并使心灵产生创造力的过程。本文认为,分析威廉-布莱克通过 "心智的一部分 "这一特例对想象力的描绘,可以加深我们对他如何在作品中阐释和运用这一能力的理解。在布莱克的 partus mentis 中,大脑与子宫之间的类比至关重要。大脑被视为通过想象力孕育出的想法的宿主,而一旦它们被赋予生命,就会成为艺术。这是布莱克宇宙论的重要组成部分,与他个人对《圣经-创世纪》的重新诠释以及他的 "人形神性 "概念息息相关。这也包括他对有关生成和生命的医学理论和实践的回应。本文密切关注与布莱克同时代的医学文化话语及其对 "类比 "的广泛使用,"类比 "定义了漫长的十八世纪的认识论。类比法后来受到 "视觉认识论 "的挑战,"视觉认识论 "强调使用解剖图谱、蜡像模型和解剖来直接体验人体功能和过程,尤其是大脑和子宫。本文认为,布莱克能够超越这两种认识论,同时利用其中的特定元素。
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“From Out the Portals of My Brain”: William Blake’s Partus Mentis and Imaginative Regeneration
Partus mentis (the parturition of the mind) brings together the following two significant aspects of Romantic culture and ideology: the exploration into human generation, and the process of how imagination forms an idea and makes the mind creatively productive. This article suggests that analyzing William Blake’s portrayal of imagination through the partus mentis trope can enhance our comprehension of how he illustrates and employs this faculty in his works. In Blake’s partus mentis, the analogy between the brain and the womb is pivotal. The brain is seen as a host for ideas that are conceived through imagination, and once they are brought to life, they become art. This is a vital component of Blake’s cosmogony, tying into his personal reinterpretation of biblical Genesis and his concept of the Human Form Divine. It also includes his response to medical theories and practises regarding generation and life. This article pays close attention to the medico-cultural discourse that was contemporary to Blake, and its wide use of the ‘analogy’, which defined the episteme of the long eighteenth century. The analogy approach was later challenged by the ‘epistemology of the visual’, which emphasized the use of anatomical atlases, wax models, and dissections for direct experiential insights into bodily functions and processes, particularly of the brain and the womb. This article argues that Blake is able to transcend these two epistemologies while harnessing specific elements from each.
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