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SUMMARY:Emotions\, Metaphors and Control in Akkadian Texts from Ancient Me
 sopotamia
DTSTART:20251208T151500Z
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DESCRIPTION:Metaphor Talk by Dr Ulrike Steinert (JGU Mainz)\n\nCuneiform t
 exts written in Akkadian\, one of the oldest known Semitic languages\, use
  different linguistic constructions to describe emotional experiences in w
 ays that reflect underlying conceptual structures and metaphors. Akkadian 
 emotion expressions attribute to experiencers varying degrees of control o
 r agency over their body and self. Descriptions of emotional episodes can 
 range from active performance to total loss of control. In the latter case
 \, emotions are often constructed as agents or forces that can at times as
 sume the status of a personified or superhuman power. \nRelated to this c
 onceptualization is the culturally salient idea of divine or demonic agenc
 y as a force that can cause a range of changes in a human person’s state
  of being. Affliction by deities or demons connected to a loss of agency o
 r control in the afflicted person can manifest in various forms of illness
 \, altered states of consciousness and in overwhelming emotional experienc
 es. The boundaries between these conceptual domains are thus fuzzy\, which
  is reflected in comparable expressions: superhuman agents\, diseases and 
 emotions are equally said to “seize” or “overwhelm” a person. More
 over\, emotional experiences are sometimes likened to altered states of co
 nsciousness\, for example\, when a person overwhelmed by emotion is compar
 ed to a raving ecstatic who is under the control of a deity.\nThe talk pre
 sents an overview of different metaphors\, modes of description and the co
 nceptualization of agency and control in emotional experiences and related
  states of being\, through the discussion of selected Akkadian cuneiform s
 ources from the second and first millennium BCE. 
LOCATION:CERES-Palais\, Raum "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/de/events/emotions-metaphors-and-control-in-akkad
 ian-texts-f/
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