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- Title
The Auditory-Musical Function or Disfunction in the Identitary Construction of the National Super-Ego -- Case Study on the Disfunction of the Romanian Super-Ego.
- Authors
ARDELEAN, Ramona
- Abstract
The present research starts from the supposition of fundamental vibrations, theorised in modern physics under the name of "string theory". The assumption is that everything, matter, life, force or energy, stems from the vibrations of these strings, which resemble "the musical notes" or Pythagoras' "music of the spheres". This made physicists state that the Universe would be "a cosmic symphony". In this sense, I set out to demonstrate that these vibrations or sound "strings", perceived through the auditory-musical function, specialized in receiving order, harmony, measure, rhythm or "tuning" of the sound vibrations, plays a primordial role in configuring the cultural, character-forming, institutional and identitary function of a nation. This function is structured under the form of the national Super-ego, as a superior integrator of identity. This auditory-musical function will serve as basis for classifying nations into musical and non-musical. Musical nations are those with the highest degree of culture, civilization and identity, which is to say the nations with the strongest Super-ego, while non-musical nations, as is our own, are the one with the lowest degree of culture, civilization and identity, which is to say the nations with the weakest national Super-ego, due to the auditory-musical disfunction. If the auditory-musical function, specific to musical nations, reveals the identity-interiority axis, as an axis or vector of all forms of creation, then the musical-auditory disfunction, specific to non-musical nations, exemplified by the Romanian nation, will reveal the identification-exteriority axis, as a false identity, based, in the absence of internal "hearing", on visual identification with a form or image from the exterior. Given that music best expresses, according to Schopenhauer, the essence of the will to be, meaning the essence of life, it is obvious then, that the most musical nations will best express the very essence of their will to be, as the essence of life, reaching, through means of their Super-ego, the highest form of awareness and objectiveness of their will and the "to be" of their identity. It is this awareness that leads to the heliocentric, or circular movement of music, of will and life, seen as an eternal movement of returning of the Same, the Identical.
- Subjects
CULTURAL identity; PYTHAGOREAN theorem
- Publication
Hermeneia: Journal of Hermeneutics, Art Theory & Criticism, 2018, Issue 21, p185
- ISSN
1453-9047
- Publication type
Article