I argue that aspects of Tieck’s essay-fragment Über das Erhabene can provide insights into the psychic aberrations experienced by Christian in Der Runenberg. By uniting the rhetorical sublime of Longinus with the aesthetic sublime of Burke and Kant (and additional theories of sublimity by Carl Grosse and Johann Georg Sulzer), Tieck reveals a broad knowledge of this important eighteenth-century aesthetic category. Additionally, selected passages from his unfinished Das Buch über Shakespeare (1794–) demonstrate his continued engagement with sublimity and madness. Given the approximate decade-long interval between his essay-fragment and Runenberg, I suggest William Lovell as a thematic midpoint and link in which Tieck begins to actualize Romantic notions of madness and sublimity implicit in many of his early writings. Turning to Runenberg, I concentrate on one taxonomy (‘Melancholie, Verrücktheit, Wahnsinn’) from Tieck’s essay-fragment and argue that Christian experiences neither a mobile inner journey nor a dynamic outer one, but rather an inner disconnectedness and fixation as a result of the self’s inadequacy and corruptibility in the face of nature and its experience of the sublime. The article concludes by contextualizing Tieck’s representation of melancholy and madness within eighteenth-century theoretical considerations of psychopathology, specifically by alluding to Kant’s essay Versuch über die Krankheiten des Kopfes.

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崇高的概念：蒂克的 Über Das Erhabene 和 Der Runenberg 中不安的心灵

我认为 Tieck 的散文片段 Über das Erhabene 的各个方面可以提供对 Christian 在 Der Runenberg 所经历的心理畸变的洞察。通过将朗基努斯的修辞崇高与伯克和康德的审美崇高（以及卡尔·格罗斯和约翰·乔治·苏尔寿的其他崇高理论）结合起来，蒂克揭示了这一重要的 18 世纪美学类别的广泛知识。此外，他未完成的 Das Buch über Shakespeare (1794–) 中的精选段落展示了他对崇高和疯狂的持续参与。鉴于他的散文片段和 Runenberg 之间大约有十年的时间间隔，我建议将威廉洛弗尔作为主题的中点和链接，蒂克开始实现他的许多早期作品中隐含的疯狂和崇高的浪漫主义观念。转向 Runenberg，我专注于 Tieck 论文片段中的一个分类法（“忧郁症、Verrücktheit、Wahnsinn”），并认为基督徒既没有经历过移动的内在旅程，也没有经历过动态的外在旅程，而是由于自我的不足和面对自然及其对崇高的体验的腐败。文章最后将蒂克对 18 世纪精神病理学理论考虑中的忧郁和疯狂的表现置于语境中，特别是通过暗指康德的文章 Versuch über die Krankheiten des Kopfes。而是由于自我在面对自然及其对崇高的体验时的不足和腐败而导致的内在脱节和固执。文章最后将蒂克对 18 世纪精神病理学理论考虑中的忧郁和疯狂的表现置于语境中，特别是通过暗指康德的文章 Versuch über die Krankheiten des Kopfes。而是由于自我在面对自然及其对崇高的体验时的不足和腐败而导致的内在脱节和固执。文章最后将蒂克对 18 世纪精神病理学理论考虑中的忧郁和疯狂的表现置于语境中，特别是通过暗指康德的文章 Versuch über die Krankheiten des Kopfes。