A Brief Probe into the Indispensability of Water in Literature and Philosophy

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10.2991/978-2-38476-092-3_110How to use a DOI?

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Water; Literature; Philosophy

Abstract

Throughout the ages, water has played an indispensable role in literature and philosophy. Countless written works focus on water, or use images of water as mediums of expression. “From time immemorial many fine things have been said and sung of the sea. And the days have been, when sailors were considered veritable mermen.”. This article aims to uncover the correlation between literature, philosophy and water. How does water fascinate us? How does it prevail as imagery? What does it bring to our pieces? The reasons why water never fails to fascinate people are divided into three parts as follows. First, from an aspect of bioanalysis, water can give us a feeling as if we were still in our mother’s belly, for that a striking likeness between the sea and the human womb’s environment has been found. Secondly, since human beings spend their first 10 months in water, we are born with a natural complex about water though rejected from awareness; As a result, we may be sentimentally attached to water. Hence we link our mentality with its relevant traits; Thirdly, water has raised the sense of belonging in us. Writers tend to express their religious yearning for alliance with the outer world because that sense may be the stem of religious feelings inside of us.

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AU  - Yunxin Xie
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BT  - Proceedings of the 2023 9th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2023)
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