Pleasure in pain
the economy of affects between Euripides' Heracles and Plato's Republic
Keywords:
Euripides, Heracles, affects, Republic, Plato, Greek drama (tragedy)Abstract
This article aims to investigate the final moments of Euripides' tragedy Heracles, in order to understand how the drama conceives, represents and articulates textual forms that point to pleasure in pain. For this purpose, we will seek support in the cryptic Platonic conception of a "hunger for tears", formulated in book X of the Republic, in order to elucidate how mimetic poetry, especially epic and tragic poetry, affects the human soul by instigating the desire to experience pleasure in pain. The aim is to analyze the economy of affections, especially suffering, in a classical tragedy, based both on Plato's explicit criticism and on the filigrees of its discursive texture. Thus, the two works will be brought closer together through a kind of dialog, composed, on the one hand, of the concepts, metaphors and vocabulary unfolded by Plato, and, on the other, of the forms, figures, images, phonic textures and other resources that accentuate the complex relationship between pleasure and suffering present in Heracles.
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