HUM 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Psalms, Manichaeism, Aeneid
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Augustine in carthage: the experience of lust and desire through food imagery inversion of the sacred rites of ingestion. Metaphor: sartago (frying pan) will come up on final. He is using food and drink to metaphorically to represent the everyday world of prizes, rewards, praises. What he sees as a true spiritual life. Euracus: the central ritual practice of christianity. When augustine sees himself in drinking or eating, is it sacred or profane form of ingestion. The creation of a self-figuralizing narrative: that is early events in the writer"s life will be prefigure later events; events in the writer"s life take on a spiritual or scriptural resonance. Augustine applies figurative interpretation technique to his whole confession. (e. g abraham and isaac scarification pre-figure to jesus ) The act of reading is a comparable way of reading yourself. Augustine gives us a rang/staircase/movement up (virgil manichees . Scriptures), we see how he is attracted and seduced, see how.
