“Lucía Díaz Marroquín, La retórica de los afectos”

In the 21st century, emotions are generally perceived an evoked according to psychoanalytic and post-structuralist viewpoints, deriving from Romantic perspectives which are still in force, among them, the dignification of the narrative subject. This may lead us to forget the sophisticated code inherited from the Platonic, Aristotelian, Galenic, and even the pseudo-Hermetic traditions which used to be the frame of reference for the expression of emotion before the Romanticism. Díaz Marroquin’s La retórica de los afectos offers the keys necessary to understand the performance of emotion –affects, passions- within the context of the Renaissance and Baroque Europe, the unmediated cultural heir of the Greek and Latin Antiquity.