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Dionysian
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Dionysian
(in the philosophy of Nietzsche) of or relating to the set of creative qualities that encompasses spontaneity, irrationality, the rejection of discipline, etc.


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I'm reminded of this fact by the current revival of Peter Shaffer's Equus, which pits Apollonian and Dionysian forces against each other in the persons of Martin Dysart, a hospital psychiatrist weary of life's rational compromises, and Alan Strang, a teenage miscreant who has been sent for analysis after committing a grotesque act of rage and passion.
Domestication and its discontents by Ellenzweig, Allen / The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
The satyr's embodiment of either the old orality of French poetry or the printed French language's challenge to Greek and Latin recalls the "uneasy co-existence" (90) of Apollonian and Dionysian music making in pictorial arts at Fontainebleau.
Sounding Objects: Musical Instruments, Poetry, and Art in Renaissance ... by Kirkland, Ann Sorey / Renaissance Quarterly
Object-relations theory, in perhaps echoing Nietzsche's Apollonian and Dionysian dyad, (43) proposes alpha-elements (as 'orderly' and 'thoughtful') and beta-elements (as 'disorderly' and 'thoughtless').
Vale postmodern thanatogenics? Towards an aesthetic proto-avant-garde by Disney, Dan / Traffic (Parkville)
 
 
 
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