抄録
This paper examines the representation theory of image ascribed to Plato. By demonstrating its conspiracy with the modern theory of subject, it suggests an alternative approach to image drawing on Pseudo-Dionysius, a Greek theologian in the sixth century. According to Pseudo-Dionysius, every being which is the image of God communicates His beauty to other beings as a mirror. In the process of such aesthetic communication, which, in turn, is realized by restrained and articulated eros, he locates human subject. Eros as formulated by Dionysius must, however, be distinguished from that of Plotinus, as it does not destroy the individuality of each being. The erotic subject is at once an individual and plural being. This is a significant discovery of Dionysius, on the basis of which the present paper suggests a critical standpoint towards the modernist view of subject.
