TY  - EJOUR
TI  - The maladies of the imagination Sorcery, genius, ecstatic rapture and prophetic dreaming
T2  - Libertinage et philosophie à l’époque classique (xvie-xviiie siècle) 2019, n° 16. Les libertins et l’imagination
DO  - 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-09789-1.p.0033
SN  - 2649-1826
AB  - In three authors related to erudite libertinism, imagination appears as a power that enables us to modify ourselves, either positively (healing and strengthening of intellectual faculties) or negatively (autosuggestion) when it is « sick » (excess of black bile for Naudé). A scheme taken up by Cyrano in an ironic-grotesque way, by La Mothe Le Vayer about the formation of dreams and which will be used by Hobbes to criticize prophetic dreams as God's word.
PY  - 2019
DA  - 2019/11/06
DP  - Classiques Garnier
PB  - Classiques Garnier
KW  - La Mothe Le Vayer, Naudé, Cyrano de Bergerac, Hobbes, libertinage érudit, imagination, sorcery, genius, dream, prophecy
Y2  - 2024/07/11
ER  -