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    Plato’s Silence: A Study in the Imagination

    Author: Eric Rhode

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    ‘Rhode pulls us deeply into the largest questions of existence and upwards into a coherence of thinking that enriches philosophy, anthropology and psychoanalysis, without our realising quite how far he has helped us to travel. This is an extraordinary book’
    – Paul Williams from the Preface

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    Eric Rhode

    ISBN

    9780954323103

    Format

    Paperback

    Page Extent

    224

    Publication Date

    2003

    Subject Areas

    Psychoanalysis, Philosophy

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    ‘Rhode pulls us deeply into the largest questions of existence and upwards into a coherence of thinking that enriches philosophy, anthropology and psychoanalysis, without our realising quite how far he has helped us to travel. This is an extraordinary book’
    – Paul Williams from the Preface

    About the author

    About the author

     

    Eric Rhode, formerly a writer on film, became a psychotherapist in private practice, now retired. He is the author of a number of books, including Psychotic Metaphysics, Plato’s Silence: A Study in the Imagination, and Notes on the Aniconic: The Foundations of Psychology in Ontology.

    To view all our titles from Eric Rhode, click here.

    Contents

    Contents

    Foreword by Paul Williams
    Preface

    PART I: ‘Shinto temples have no images within them. A mirror alone constitutes a symbol of the deity’
    1. ‘The soul writes and is written upon’: the destruction and re-creation of sequential time
    2. Re-finding the theological dimension to numbers
    3. Actuality as a “lighthouse dark between flashes”
    4. Blindness, muteness, and spiritual inoperancy: the effects of functionalism
    5. Discovering music: the movement of voices in another room
    6. Soul as membrane and logic of traditional cosmology
    7. The nature of intermittence
    8. Preconceptions of the primal scene and Freud’s understanding of Cordelia’s silence

    PART II: ‘The intensification of a boundary idea’
    9. The paradigmatic nature of the sacrifice
    10. Marks that appear on a plane surface and that transpire from the side that is imperceptible
    11. Hypothesis in Plato
    12. Without resemblance
    13. The triple-eyed god and the triadic nature of the temple
    14. Apocalypse as a presence in the great city
    15. The shadow of a dome that floats midway on the waters

    PART III: The rebirth of the cosmos as· extension and duration
    16. Feeling pain in a missing part of the body: Descartes and the phantom limb
    17 Cézanne and the motif as phantom limb
    18. ‘The pure fire which is within us flows through the eyes in a stream’: the horned lantern
    19. The gnomon as a means of metaphysical ‘gazing’
    20. The granary-gnomon of the Western Sudan

    PART IV: The nature of the journey: generating the cosmos from night
    21. An analogue for the journey of Adam’s ribs through metamorphosis: the weaving and unweaving of day and night
    22. The transformation of non-Being into logos
    23. Sonority, reptiles, and the divine son
    24. Parmenides and the cosmic orbit of the sun
    25. The ‘psychology’ of conflagration: wheel of fire, pillar of fire and spatio-temporal transfiguration

    PART V: The tripartite nature of symbol formation
    26. The gnomon-rib in transformation
    27. Fixing the hours of the night: The gnomon in the cenotaph of Seti the First
    28. The sun’s portal: light touches the sacred mountain
    29. Placenta and moon: the prince about whom no stories are told
    30. ‘Men are not the authors of the magic books’: the differing status of celestial & terrestrial animals
    31. Eye as cave of fire
    32. The non-Euclidean space in which angels descend & ascend
    33. Experience, paradigm, Plato’s silence

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