The symptom and the subject: the emergence of the physical body in ancient Greece

Preface and Acknowledgments ix  Abbreviations xiii  Note on Transliterations and Translations xxiii      INTRODUCTION 1  Symptoms and Subjects 1  Seeing through Symptoms 9  The Physical Imagination 19  Rethinking S?ma and Psukh? 29  Telling Stories 37      CHAPTER ONE: Before the Physical Body 41  Daemonic Violence 48  The Seen and the Felt 58  The Boundaries of the Felt 64  Fear and the Visual Field of the Self 69  How Gods Act 73  The Seen Body and Social Agency 76  Interpreting Disease and Practices of Healing 79      CHAPTER TWO: The Inquiry into Nature and the Physical Imagination 84  Depersonalizing Causes 90  Natural Justice 95  Melissus and the Denial of Body 101  A Community of Objects 108  Bodies, Persons, Knowledge 116      CHAPTER THREE: Incorporating the Daemonic 121  Symptoms at the Th reshold of Seen and Unseen 126  The Interval 130  Explaining Disease 133  The Dynamics of the Cavity 138  The Automatic Body 142      CHAPTER FOUR: Signs of Life and Techniques of Taking Care 148  The Prognostic Symptom: Forces of Life and Death 150  Fragile Life 156  On Ancient Medicine and the Discovery of Human Nature 162  Embodiment, Knowledge, and Technical Agency 171  Taking Care 177  Shoring Up the Self 182      CHAPTER FIVE: Beyond the S?ma: Therapies of the Psukh? 192  Bodily Needs 196  Psychic Desires 202  Gorgias's Encomium to Helen and Human Diseases 211  Psychic Disorder in Democritus 216      CHAPTER SIX: Forces of Nature, Acts of Gods: Euripides' Symptoms 228  The Polysemy of the Symptom 233  Tragedy and the Interval 239  Euripides' Causes: Th e Madness of Heracles 242  Euripides' Causes: Th e Madness of Orestes 246  Realizing Disease in the Hippolytus 252  Daemonic Phusis 260  The Semantics of Suff ering 265      Conclusion 275  Bibliography 281  Index Locorum 325  General Index 349