TY - JOUR

T1 - Chôra : Creation and Pathology

T2 - An Inquiry into the Origins of Illness and Human Response

AU - Isar, Nicoletta

N1 - Paper id:: ISSN 1841-0413

PY - 2009

Y1 - 2009

N2 - Plato's dialogue the Timaeus describes not only the making of the cosmos (order), but also the condition of what is not order, neither for the human body nor for the universe. What is disorder in cosmogonic terms it is disease for the human body. Timaeus applies to the concept chôra in discussing the origins of disease as a state of imbalance and shaking, because the cosmogonic chôra is replicated in the human body, more exactly, in the liver. But the liver is also the organ of divination, the gift given to man to have access to some hidden truth. This article attempts to sketch out the relation between the chôra and illness, looking for an answer to the question of what light might shed the relationship between chôra and illness on human creativity. A specific human typology, subject to disturbances taking place in the chôra, is examined: the poet, the diviner and the melancholy artist, manifested as channels of some exceptional inspiration. They are "mantic subjects" because they acquire vision of divination not with reason, but in a state of inspiration, through divine madness (manía) and possession, as in a dream. These subjects turn illness into creativity by facing the drives of chôra. http://www.ejop.org/archives/2009/05/chara_creation.html

AB - Plato's dialogue the Timaeus describes not only the making of the cosmos (order), but also the condition of what is not order, neither for the human body nor for the universe. What is disorder in cosmogonic terms it is disease for the human body. Timaeus applies to the concept chôra in discussing the origins of disease as a state of imbalance and shaking, because the cosmogonic chôra is replicated in the human body, more exactly, in the liver. But the liver is also the organ of divination, the gift given to man to have access to some hidden truth. This article attempts to sketch out the relation between the chôra and illness, looking for an answer to the question of what light might shed the relationship between chôra and illness on human creativity. A specific human typology, subject to disturbances taking place in the chôra, is examined: the poet, the diviner and the melancholy artist, manifested as channels of some exceptional inspiration. They are "mantic subjects" because they acquire vision of divination not with reason, but in a state of inspiration, through divine madness (manía) and possession, as in a dream. These subjects turn illness into creativity by facing the drives of chôra. http://www.ejop.org/archives/2009/05/chara_creation.html

KW - Faculty of Humanities

KW - Chôra

KW - Chôra

M3 - Journal article

SP - 96

EP - 109

JO - Europe's Journal of Psychology

JF - Europe's Journal of Psychology

SN - 1841-0413

IS - 2

ER -