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Eros and Magic in the Renaissance

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ISBN-10: 0226123162

ISBN-13: 9780226123165

Edition: 1987

Authors: Ioan P. Couliano, Margaret Cook, Mircea Eliade

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It is a widespread prejudice of modern, scientific society that "magic" is merely a ludicrous amalgam of recipes and methods derived from primitive and erroneous notions about nature. Eros and Magic in the Renaissance challenges this view, providing an in-depth scholarly explanation of the workings of magic and showing that magic continues to exist in an altered form even today. Renaissance magic, according to Ioan Couliano, was a scientifically plausible attempt to manipulate individuals and groups based on a knowledge of motivations, particularly erotic motivations. Its key principle was that everyone (and in a sense everything) could be influenced by appeal to sexual desire. In…    
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Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/15/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.98" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Translator's Note Foreword
Acknowledgments Introduction
Phantasms at Work
History of Phantasy
On the Inner Sense Some Preliminary Considerations The Phantasmic Pneuma
Flux and Reflux of Values in the Twelfth Century Acculturation of the West How a Woman . . .
The Vehicle of the Soul and Prenatal Experience
Empirical Psychology and the Deep Psychology of Eros
The Empirical Psychology of Ficino and Its Sources
The Art of Memory
The Phantasmic Eros and the Appeasement of Desire
Phantasms at Work
The Depth Psychology of Ficino Descent of the Soul Melancholy and Saturn
Dangerous Liasons
Pico della Mirandola, Continuator of Ficino Giordano Bruno, a Man of the Phantasmic Past Scandal in London Mnemonic Phantasms Ambiguity of Eros At the Heart of Bruno's Doctrine Actaeon Diana The Parable of the Nine Blind Men Circe
The Great Manipulator
Eros and Magic
Identity of Substance, Identity of Process
Manipulation of Masses and of Individuals
Vinculum Vinculorum
Ejaculation and Retention of Semen
Of Magic as General Psychosociology
Pneumatic Magic
The Starting Point of Magic
"Subjective" Magic and "Transitive" Magic
The Conspiracy of Things
The Theory of Radiations
Pneumatic Magic
Intersubjective Magic
Intrasubjective Magic
Intersubjective Magic Higher Presences The Lures Propitious Times
Demonomagic
Some Concepts of Demonology
Demons and Eros
Witches and Demoniacs
Demonomagic from Ficino to Giordano Bruno Classifications of Magic Trithemius of Wurzburg
End Game
1484
A Wingless Fly
Why Was the Year 1484 so Formidable?
Censoring Phantasy
Abolition of the Phantasmic
Some Historic Paradoxes
The Controversy about Asinity
The Wiles of Giordano Bruno
A Single Reformation
The Change in Ways of Envisaging the World
Doctor Faust, from Antioch to Seville
The Permissiveness of the Renaissance
It Will Be Hotter in Hell!
An Exhaustive Moralism: The Legend of Faust
A Final Result?
Note
Bibliography
Index of Names