Les émotions dans l’Égypte Ancienne

Culture, images, textes

Edited by Marie-Lys Arnette Edited by Rania Y. Merzeban

Book cover: Les émotions dans l’Égypte Ancienne

Extent: 264 pages

Publisher: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale

Subjects: Ancient Egypt

Series: Bibliotheque d'etude

Series volume number: 195

Language: French

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(July 2026)

ISBN: 9782724711455

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Synopsis
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Le terme « émotion », entendu comme synonyme d’affect, de sensibilité, de ressenti et de sentiment, recouvre un champ de réactions extrêmement vaste et complexe. Les recherches en sciences humaines et sociales ont démontré sa contingence culturelle : toute émotion humaine est non seulement propre à un individu, mais est aussi profondément conditionnée par la culture et la collectivité dont celui-ci fait partie. L’expression des émotions est donc éminemment culturelle.

Cet ouvrage collectif explore les émotions dans l’Égypte ancienne, telles qu’elles sont relatées à travers les images et les textes. Cette confrontation révèle des différences notables : en termes d’intensité, les images sont, de manière très générale, plus retenues, quand les textes évoquent volontiers des débordements émotionnels, dissemblance qui tient sans doute à la manière dont les arts visuels et la littérature sont normés.

Bien plus qu’un simple panorama, les douze chapitres qui composent le livre se proposent de définir la notion même d’émotion égyptienne, qui appartient au champ plus vaste de l’expérience sensible (ce que l’on « goûte », dans le vocabulaire égyptien), comme de montrer ses expressions culturelles si particulières qui, toujours, servent un but précis.

Emotion, a term understood as synonymous with affect, sensitivity, feeling and sentiment, covers an extremely vast and complex field of reactions. Research in the human and social sciences has demonstrated its cultural contingency: every human emotion is not only unique to an individual, but is also profoundly conditioned by the culture and community to which he or she belongs. The expression of emotions is therefore highly cultural.

This collective work explores emotions in ancient Egypt, as communicated through images and texts. This comparison reveals significant differences: in terms of intensity, images are generally more restrained, while texts readily evoke emotional outbursts, a dissimilarity that no doubt stems from the way in which the visual arts and literature are standardized.

Much more than a simple overview, the twelve chapters that make up the book set out to define the very notion of Egyptian emotion, which belongs to the wider field of sensory experience (what one “tastes,” in Egyptian vocabulary), as well as to show its very particular cultural expressions, which always serve a precise purpose.

Edited by Marie-Lys Arnette
Edited by Rania Y. Merzeban

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