Interiority

Interiority is the Seba lineage’s term for the psychological-historical phenomenon of the self as interior space — the sense that there is an inside to the person in which thought, feeling, memory, and deliberation take place, distinct from and prior to the outward expressions that make them visible to others. Modern consciousness takes the inside for granted; the classical-philological record shows that the inside had to be constituted, and that the constitution was historical.

Bruno Snell‘s [[snell-discovery-of-the-mind|The Discovery of the Mind]] traced the emergence of interiority through the archaic Greek lyric: the I of Archilochus and Sappho is the first literary site at which a Western voice speaks from an inner position in its own name. Seaford‘s [[seaford-money-early-greek-mind|Money and the Early Greek Mind]] locates the material conditions for the same development in the transformation of exchange practice. Augustine’s Confessions renders the mature Latin-Christian form of the interior turn. Jung‘s entire project presupposes the existence of the inside as an observable domain. See discovery-of-depth and interior-turn.

Relationships

• snell-discovery-of-the-mind
• discovery-of-depth
• interior-turn