圣奥古斯丁

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• Yet the expectation of sexual excess in Augustine’s life leads people to add sexual scenes and themes to his story - incestuous feelings for his mother or homosexual feelings for his friend. The obsessive treatment of Augustine’s supposed sexual obsession is apparent in two well-known and repeatedly cited articles by modern psychiatrists. They discuss the scene where Augustine’s father sees him nude in the public baths and rejoices that he will become a grandfather, since Augustine had reached sexual maturity. “My childhood past,” Augustine says, “[I was] clothed in unstable manhood [inquieta adulescentia]” (T 2.6). Dr. Charles Klingerman takes that adjective inquieta to mean Augustine had an erection in the baths. Drs. R. Brändle and W. Neidhart go further, supposing that Augustine’s fat... (查看原文)

  太白兔 2017-02-18 11:20:28

• People notice that there is a parallel between this “first sin” of The Testimony and Adam's fall in the garden of Eden. Though the gang hauls off a “huge load” (onera ingentia) of pears from the orchard, Augustine talks of only one tree - like the tree of the apple in Eden. He goes out of his way to say the pears were not beautiful, marking a contrast with the fruit in Eden, where the tree “was pleasant to the eyes” (Genesis 3.6). But a further parallel, the key one, has not been noticed, I think. Eve falls for the serpent's lies in Genesis; but Saint Paul's First Letter to Timothy (which Augustine thought was authentically Pauline) says that “Adam was not deceived” (2.14). Why did Adam commit the original sin if he was neither desirous of the fruit in itself nor deceived about any power i... (查看原文)

  太白兔 2017-02-19 01:20:44

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