Denys impresses me as REPETITIVE, and the "great logic" of which other commentators on Denys speak (notably Andrew Louth et al.) strikes me differently for the reads-- Englishly several times-- Greekly in slow coming once and hither in parts-- the notion of the singsong that emerges strikes me as it would a mental health professional,
as something like idee fixe or "overvalued ideation," or even perseveration. . .
<FROM FREUD, GESAMMETLTE WERKE, EARLY, ON "HYSTERIA">
This jibes with the appearance in CD of "clang association" either by end-rhyme (easy to do in Greek, and seemingly designated as a sometime or frequent annoying RHYTHMOS). In translation, the emotional tone is always euphoric (and the book I have about content analysis in mental health--THE-MEASUREMENT-OF-PSYCHOLOGICAL-STATES-THROUG-THE-CONTENT-ANALYSIS-OF-VERBAL-BEHAVIOR by Gottschalk L A and Gleser G C 1969, pp 12-17-- would suggest that even casual analysis can show affect (mood)). And more clearly pointing diagnostically is Denys' positive evaluation of EKSTASIS (in-root like 6X), the "exaltation-word" in Greek (EKPLEETTOO, 1X), and the positive evaluation of drunkenness (METHEE, in-root several times), and "hangover" yes indeed gets positives. These seem like hypomanic or even manic assertions,
yet in reading ON-THE-SUBLIME by Longinus I am led to subtract some of this "diagnosis" as a prospect that "the sublime" so expressed in CD may indeed be a c u l t u r a l artifact of habit.
<FOR CLARIFICATION, I HAVE READ CARL WERNIKE'S GRUNDRISS-DER-PSYCHIATRIE, Lesson 15, pp 145-153 on "überwerthigen Ideen,"and as may need my repitition to this point of study, I have the Englished GENERAL-PSYCHOPATHOLOGY of Karl Jaspers, as well as an amount of psychiatric PDFs on overvalued ideas, perseveration, idees fixees, to reinforce a sense that such ideation is a SERIOUS SYMPTOM, but not too specific for any mental disorder;
more to the point here, however, is my fairly solid learning that PHENOMENOLOGY is what I am interested-in per this study, and our Jaspers only says that his psychopatholical phenomenology refers clinically to CONTENT, where as pure and noetic phenomenology is cocerned but with FORM.
. . . Therefore my assaignment seems to be=> reach for the PHENOMENOLOGY OF FORM IN DENYS; yet when I regard this prospect, I must also factor in my own personal experience with seeming manic (or schiz) manias and hypomanias, and my fixed ideas and-- especially-- fixed ideas that (as Wernike and Jaspers proffer) couple into DELUSION(s).>
SELAH
vernonlynn stephens, sissy
NOTE!! MUCH DOCUMENTATION FOR THIS WORK ON DIONYSIUS CALLED AREOPAGITE IS HELD IN MY (vernonlynn stephens', sissy's) GOOGLE CLASSROOM ON THIS SUBJECT; SEE THIS H I G H L I G H T E D LINK, PER FAVOUR. . . .
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