Des rêves
- Langue:
- anglais
- État:
- Œuvre complète
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- Écrite par l'auteur
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- Aucun bruit de numérisation détecté (mesure automatique sur tout le texte, non vérifiée à la main)
- Étendue:
- ~4 840 mots · 23 passages
Citer cette œuvre
- APAAristote. (n.d.). On Dreams (Aristotle) [Des rêves]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/aristotle/on-dreams-aristotle
- MLAAristote. On Dreams (Aristotle) [Des rêves]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/aristotle/on-dreams-aristotle.
- ChicagoAristote. On Dreams (Aristotle) [Des rêves]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/aristotle/on-dreams-aristotle.
Référence de l’édition reproduite. SigPhi est la reproduction numérique. Année, éditeur et traducteur sont indiqués lorsqu’ils sont connus ; « n.d. » signale une année inconnue.
De quoi il s'agit
Ce qu'est un rêve, s'il n'est ni perception ni pensée. La réponse : des mouvements résiduels des sens qui continuent quand l'objet a disparu.
Contexte et histoire
Remarquable de sobriété : dans un monde qui lisait les rêves comme des messages, Aristote en donne une explication purement physiologique. L'image des rides qui continuent de courir après que la pierre a coulé est de lui. Fait partie des Parva naturalia, les huit petits traités qui prolongent le De anima en appliquant sa théorie à des phénomènes particuliers du corps vivant. Ils nous sont transmis en bloc et se lisent mieux ensemble.
Contexte éditorial, non une source citable : contrairement aux passages de l'œuvre, ces données ne peuvent pas être vérifiées dans le 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.…