From Monster to Idea. Aby Warburg and the psycho-archaeology of man

This article aims at demonstrating two main theses: 1) Warburg’s work on a “historical psychology of the human expression”, which constitutes the rationale and guiding reference of the Atlas Mnemosyne, should be understood as a psycho-archeology of man; and 2) Warburg’s madness is the experience of...

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Autor principal: Prósperi, Germán Osvaldo
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Publicado: Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/CdF/article/view/7802
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Sumario:This article aims at demonstrating two main theses: 1) Warburg’s work on a “historical psychology of the human expression”, which constitutes the rationale and guiding reference of the Atlas Mnemosyne, should be understood as a psycho-archeology of man; and 2) Warburg’s madness is the experience of the extra-human nature of the historical psyque, i.e., it is the pathological evidence confirming that the human element does not constitute the other of the Monstrum, but the domesticated Monstrum itself.