The Imprint of the Soul: Psychosomatic Affection in Plato, Gorgias, and the “Orphic” Gold Tablets.

Mouseion 3 (6):383-398 (2006)
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Abstract

Ancient intellectuals from Gorgias of Leontini forward employed the notion of 'imprinting' the soul in order to describe various sorts of psychic affections. The dominant context for this scientific language remains juridical both in 4th Century philosophy (e.g. Plato's description of the soul being whipped in the Gorgias) and in religion (e.g. the soul's imprint as keyword in "Orphic" Gold Tablets). This tradition continues in the fragments of Plutarch's de Libidine et Aegritudine, although without proper attention to its origins in the Sophists.

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Orfeo y el orfismo. Actualización bibliográfica (1992-2003).Marco Antonio Santamaría Álvarez - 2003 - 'Ilu. Revista de Ciencias de Las Religiones 8:225-264.

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