La Locura Que Viene de las Ninfas
The Greeks did not think of madness as pathological, but instead as a divine possession, a type of knowledge and the possibility of happiness. The title essay in this book unveils the source of the most primal possession, the erotic one, caused by nymphs whose sudden and delirious rapture makes prisoners of men. For Calasso, possession is not exclusive to the ancient world, and, beyond the erotic, it is a perennial phenomenon that is experienced during life’s most basic and commonplace moments. Aby Warburg’s delirium for the nymph of Ghirlandaio, Humbert Humbert’s for Lolita in...