Sobre els somnis
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- anglès
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Cita aquesta obra
- APAAristòtil. (n.d.). On Dreams (Aristotle) [Sobre els somnis]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/aristotle/on-dreams-aristotle
- MLAAristòtil. On Dreams (Aristotle) [Sobre els somnis]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/aristotle/on-dreams-aristotle.
- ChicagoAristòtil. On Dreams (Aristotle) [Sobre els somnis]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/aristotle/on-dreams-aristotle.
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De què tracta
Què és un somni, si no és percepció ni pensament. La resposta: moviments residuals dels sentits que segueixen quan l'objecte ja no hi és.
Context i història
Notable per la sobrietat: en un món que llegia els somnis com a missatges, Aristòtil en dona una explicació purament fisiològica. La imatge de les ones que segueixen movent-se després que la pedra hagi caigut és seva. Forma part dels «Parva naturalia», els vuit opuscles breus que continuen la «De anima» aplicant-ne la teoria a fenòmens concrets del cos viu. Es transmeten com un grup i es llegeixen millor seguits.
Context editorial, no una font citable: a diferència dels passatges de l'obra, aquestes dades no es poden contrastar amb el corpus.
were when first started, but often, too, broken into other forms by collisions with obstacles. This [last mentioned point], moreover, gives the reason why no dreams occur in sleep immediately after meals, or to sleepers who are extremely young, e.g. to infants. The internal movement in such cases is excessive, owing to the heat generated from the food. Hence, just as in a liquid, if one vehemently disturbs it, sometimes no reflected image appears, while at other times one appears, indeed, but utterly distorted, so as to seem quite unlike its original; while, when once the motion has ceased, the reflected images are clear and plain; in the same manner during sleep the phantasms, or residuary movements, which are based upon the sensory impressions, become sometimes quite obliterated by the above described motion when too violent; while at other times the sights are indeed seen, but confused and weird, and the dreams which then appear are unhealthy, like those of persons who are atrabilious, or feverish, or intoxicated with wine. For all such affections, being spirituous, cause much commotion and disturbance. In sanguineous animals, in proportion as the blood becomes calm, and as its purer are separated from its less pure elements, the fact that the movement, based on impressions derived from each of the organs of sense, is preserved in its integrity, renders the dreams healthy, causes a [clear] image to present itself, and makes the dreamer think, owing to the effects borne in from the organ of sight, that he actually sees, and owing to those which come from the organ of hearing, that he really hears; and so on with those also which proceed from the other sensory organs.…