This essay examines how discursive practices distort the perception of breath by abstracting it from the ecological continuum of respiration. Drawing on Sanskrit yogaśāstra, it shows how prāṇāyāma functions as a corrective method addressing the cognitive and affective errors produced by linguistic reification. Through Patañjali’s framework, breath becomes a site for undoing dualisms and restoring discernment of embodied experience.
Lo scrutinio delle arie, ossia prāṇāyāma. Note sul rimedio 'indiano' alla discordia animi fluctuantis
federico squarcini
2025
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This essay examines how discursive practices distort the perception of breath by abstracting it from the ecological continuum of respiration. Drawing on Sanskrit yogaśāstra, it shows how prāṇāyāma functions as a corrective method addressing the cognitive and affective errors produced by linguistic reification. Through Patañjali’s framework, breath becomes a site for undoing dualisms and restoring discernment of embodied experience.
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--F. Squarcini, Lo scrutinio delle arie, ossia prāṇāyāma. Note sul rimedio _indiano_ alla discordia animi fluctuantis, in «Humanitas», 80(2025), n. 5-6, pp. 617-637 (respiro) [come stampa].pdf
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