Bibliographic record
Abstract
External agents play a substantial role in the construction of the self in Seneca’s Thyestes . The intersubjective quality of self-formation for which I argue challenges psychoanalytic interpretations that read Senecan drama in terms of self-constructed identity and internal conflict (Shelton 1977; Segal 1986: 10–17, 34, 223–225; Fitch and McElduff 2002; Schiesaro 2003). References to Stoic materialism and Lacanian theory provide both ancient and modern frameworks for reading the inter-subjective logic of the play. The Fury and the ghost of Tantalus invade and overwhelm Atreus’ ethical agency with the furor that impels his crimes: they initiate the impressions, or pre-emotions, that lead to furor and violence. Atreus’ scelus in turn constitutes his identity. From a Lacanian perspective, the paternal metaphor in the tragedy collapses around Tantalus, who represents a failed figure of the law. When Atreus confronts Thyestes, his uncanny double, in a struggle that calls into question his sexual identity and the paternity of his sons, it precipitates a breakdown between the self and outer world. The contagio of one subject’s agency with the agency of an “other” ironizes autarchic self-construction and dramatizes that what is at stake in acceding to the impetus of another’s emotions is one’s very self. Les agents extérieurs jouent un rôle substantiel pour la construction du soi dans le Thyeste de Sénèque. La qualité intersubjective de l’autoformation, que je défends, défie les interprétations psychanalytiques, qui lisent le théâtre sénéquien en termes d’identité auto-construite et de conflits internes (Shelton 1977; Segal 1986: 10–17, 34, 223–225; Fitch et McElduff 2002; Schiesaro 2003). Les références au matérialisme stoïcien et à la théorie lacanienne fournissent des modèles à la fois anciens et modernes pour lire la logique intersubjective de la pièce. La Furie et le fantôme de Tantale envahissent et submergent l’instance éthique d’Atrée avec la furor qui le pousse à ses crimes : ils initient les impressions, ou pré-émotions, qui mènent à la furor et à la violence. Quant au scelus d’Atrée, il constitue son identité. D’une perspective lacanienne, la métaphore paternelle dans la tragédie connaît un échec avec Tantale, lequel représente une figure manquée de la loi. Quand Atrée confronte Thyeste, son double inquiétant, dans un combat qui remet en question son identité sexuelle et la paternité de ses fils, cela précipite une rupture entre le soi et le monde extérieur. La contagio de l’instance d’un sujet avec l’instance d’un « autre » tourne en dérision l’auto-construction autarcique et met en lumière que le risque en accédant à l’impulsion émotionnelle d’un autre, c’est de compromettre la sienne propre.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".