Padre Martiny, Beloved, Dr. Lugenbill, Also Beloved!
The trend of my inner process, my searching sequence in the imperfect mode of trying to know, then question what-I-read, has gotten me to a so-far-now; I have learned that St. Denys writes in a most-repetitive style, with numerous superlatives, with much wordplay, as what are called "clang associations) (rhyming in the form of assonance and that branch of ρυθμος implying end-rhymes to myself "kinsperson of The England's English." I am backgrounded in mental health assessment, and have OJT training in (Jungian) psychoanalysis. . . These then-offbeat written expression-types suggest to me-- in addition to the fact that Denys has committed such "academic fraud" that now would assure eviction from any American university, yea even a Christian, yea even "Catholic" university, these have all gotten my literary appreciation more distant from a first-impression of awe to something more-critical and more-psychological;
Thus I now see these texts-- read entirely in the Parker and Luibheim translations to English-- read per Epistles and The Divine Names in (Medieval-enough) Greek, having the critical editions papered by Suchla and Heil at hand, and by gainful use (in this University of Louisville online holding) Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (so useful, this latter website that I would recommend any learner to as I-- stumble through-- pore through Denys in this saved corpus for Denys. More to the point I wish to assert, these porings now get my criticism and critique in which
Dionysius Called Areopagite, this St. Denys, writes vigorously in ways that suggest idee fixe obsessive thinking; the usual psychiatry associated with fixed ideas is that they speak to underlying anxiety, not so much in the old and useless notion of hysteria, but of psychasthenia, a condition of approximate obsessive-compulsion.
Yet
I am too familiar with the deadfall trap the usual mental healther has in reducing all cognitive content to its all-too-human psychopathology; the form of sickifying noetic content is early on in psychiatry and voiced in the Allgemeine Psychopathologie of Karl Jaspers (1913) et al. But let my reader cleanly know that Jaspers himself states that "pure phenomenology" considers mental form, which of whatever mental illness may be, after Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and Gabriel makes us know that this cognitive set-- even if totally false empirically-- in its own right shows a system to the utterer, her/his Weltanschauung. Thus
the task for me emerges from sickifying psychiatry to address this mental content in Denys as per the phenomenological ideal of reaching-for-form, witting the seeming quasi-manic and quasi-obsessive contents qua expession of angst, expression of one Denys trying hard to prove to himself his ideas, which at the bottom gives him un-settlement.
Doing-upon-doing, and earnestly doing, I shall try this; should this nauseate some (usually-closed) religious Magisteria, the Bible for Protestants, the-teaching-of-Mother-Church for Roman and Eastern Catholics, please avoid these gropings, and pray for me as "lost soul" whose faith, though real, starts by 21st century critical-thinking and following Jesus' Movement this this, the same 21st century. . .
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