The anthropogenic trauma: Nightmares as theexperience of horror in a psycho-historicalperspective

According to Aby Warburg, the historical psyche, which is essentially schizofrenic in nature, originates from a primal phobos instilled by the Monstrum, that is, the Chaos or the non-human Outside. Based on Warburg's observation, I will demonstrate three thes...

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Autor principal: Prosperi, Germán
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Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Escuela de Letras 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/heterotopias/article/view/31792
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Sumario:According to Aby Warburg, the historical psyche, which is essentially schizofrenic in nature, originates from a primal phobos instilled by the Monstrum, that is, the Chaos or the non-human Outside. Based on Warburg's observation, I will demonstrate three theses: 1) the psychic cleavage Warburg suffere disrelated specifically to imagination; 2) to understand this psychic cleavage, two forms of imagination shoud be distinguished: a symbolic imagination, that join sorconnects two elements, and a diabolic imagination, that splits the elements and introduces a pause between them; and 3) the typical experience of schizofrenia that constitues Mnemosyne is the nightmare.