Les signes de la douleur chez Cureau de La Chambre : (dé)raisons d’une hyperbole
This article examines the problem of the expression of pain in an Early Modern book dedicated to this issue: The Characters of Pain, fourth volume of The Characters of the Passions, published by the physician Marin Cureau de La Chambre between 1640 and 1662. By combining rhetoric with scholastic phi...
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| description | This article examines the problem of the expression of pain in an Early Modern book dedicated to this issue: The Characters of Pain, fourth volume of The Characters of the Passions, published by the physician Marin Cureau de La Chambre between 1640 and 1662. By combining rhetoric with scholastic philosophy and medicine, Cureau develops to an unprecedented scale the description of the different signs of pain – whether they are identified with behaviors, physiological changes or “ways of speaking”. He gives to these “ways of speaking” a prominent place and understands them as “hyperboles”. However, Cureau does not intend to discredit the complaint of people who express their pain by exaggerating it. On the contrary, Cureau justifies the use of “hyperbole” by the effect that the one who is pain seeks to provoke in others: to counterbalance the usual under-estimation of the pain by others, in order to create a feeling of compassion and a helping behavior that would correspond to the felt intensity of the pain. |
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