40：Ruth Benedict "Patterns of Culture"：2004/10/01(金) 01:39
http://www.mnstate.edu/gracyk/courses/web publishing/DionysianBehavior.htm
The basic contrast between the Pueblos and the other cultures of North America is the contrast that is named and described by Nietzsche in his studies of Greek tragedy. He discusses two diametrically opposed ways of arriving at the values of existence.
The Dionysian pursues them through ‘the annihilation of the ordinary bounds and limits of existence’; he seeks to attain in his most valued moments escape from the boundaries imposed upon him by his five senses, to break through into another order of experience. The desire of the Dionysian, in personal experience or in ritual, is to press through it toward a certain psychological state, to achieve excess. The closest analogy to the emotions he seeks is drunkenness, and he values the illumina­tions of frenzy. With Blake, he believes ‘the path of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.’
The Apollonian distrusts all this, and has often little idea of the nature of such ex­periences. He finds means to outlaw them from his con­scious life. He ‘knows but one law, measure in the Hellenic sense.’ He keeps the middle of the road, stays within the known map, does not meddle with disruptive psychological states. In Nietzsche's fine phrase, even in the exaltation of the dance he ‘remains what he is, and retains his civic name.’
