Sobre los sueños
- Idioma:
- inglés
- Estado:
- Obra completa
- Autoría:
- Escrita por el autor
- Estado del texto:
- Sin ruido de escaneo detectado (medición automática sobre todo el texto, no revisada a mano)
- Extensión:
- ~4840 palabras · 23 pasajes
Cita esta obra
- APAAristóteles. (n.d.). On Dreams (Aristotle) [Sobre los sueños]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/aristotle/on-dreams-aristotle
- MLAAristóteles. On Dreams (Aristotle) [Sobre los sueños]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/es/works/aristotle/on-dreams-aristotle.
- ChicagoAristóteles. On Dreams (Aristotle) [Sobre los sueños]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/aristotle/on-dreams-aristotle.
Referencia de la edición reproducida. SigPhi es la reproducción digital. Se incluyen año, editorial y traductor cuando constan; «n.d.» indica que no consta el año.
De qué trata
Qué es un sueño, si no es percepción ni pensamiento. La respuesta: movimientos que quedan en los sentidos y siguen cuando el objeto ya no está.
Contexto e historia
Llama la atención por lo sobrio: en un mundo que leía los sueños como mensajes, Aristóteles da una explicación puramente física. La imagen de las ondas que siguen moviéndose cuando la piedra ya se ha hundido es suya. Forma parte de los Parva naturalia, los ocho textos breves que continúan el De anima aplicando su teoría a fenómenos concretos del cuerpo vivo. Se han transmitido como grupo y se leen mejor juntos.
Contexto editorial, no una fuente citable: a diferencia de los pasajes de la obra, estos datos no se pueden comprobar contra 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.…