Motif
social body as wounded body
social_body_as_wounded_body
A motif of the Sacred Law and Social Order family, within the sub-family Civic Order and the Body Politic. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
greek
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The Republic The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 7079-7146 confidence: medium
The state physician is said to hesitate before the wound, followed by: "We do but skin and film the ulcerous place."
The passage figures the marriage and population problem as a wound or ulcerous place that a state physician cannot safely probe.
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