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Dionysian
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Dionysian
[dē·onis′ē·ən]
Etymology: Gk, Dionysos, Greek god of wine
the personal attitude of one who is uninhibited, mystic, sensual, emotional, and irrational and who may seek to escape from the boundaries imposed by the limits of the senses.


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Later it was Nietzsche (1844-1900) who turned the relationship of the Apollonian and Dionysian poles in man upside down.
He and Doris Humphrey, his mentor, spoke constantly about the contrast between Apollonian and Dionysian qualities.
Oppositions of inside and outside, war and peace, life and death, Apollonian and Dionysian are questioned, but not all resolved, in these immaculately fabricated worlds.
 
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