Madness: from the manifestations in the tragedy of Euripides to the expression of the black bill

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https://doi.org/10.14393/REVEDFIL.v38a2024-68800

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Lyssa, Madness, Manía, Melancholy

Abstract

Aiming to preserve the unity between the aesthetic and the political, the article proposed to create plots and areas of connection between the content and the ways in which tragedies work, particularly those of Euripides, and the perceptions of the manifestations of what is conventionally called folly. For this, without intending to transpose the Modernity to Greek Antiquity, the hermeneutics employed tried to produce points of tension and convergence between aspects relevant to the formation of practices and conceptualizations that involve the representations of madness. Treated sometimes as Manía, sometimes as Lyssa, to receive the contours of Melancholaō, it developed with varied facets until it was captured and fixed by modernity as a sign and symbol of mental pathology. Breaking with the Cartesian tradition, couldn't the return to the Greeks bring other ways of rethinking and updating the concept of Madness?

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Data de registro: 23/03/2023

Data de aceite: 20/09/2023

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2024-07-19

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LUZ, Heriel; LUIS COSTA, Marcio. Madness: from the manifestations in the tragedy of Euripides to the expression of the black bill. Educação e Filosofia, Uberlândia, v. 38, p. 1–30, 2024. DOI: 10.14393/REVEDFIL.v38a2024-68800. Disponível em: https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/EducacaoFilosofia/article/view/68800. Acesso em: 21 oct. 2026.