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One of Ruth Benedict's polar
types. Dionysian culture is typified by members manifesting
belief that excess, frenzy, and disruptive psychological states may well bring insight,
wisdom, and knowledge of the sacred otherworld. The Dionysian culture complex holds values
that approve recklessness, exaltation, states of emotional excess, and a general passion
to break through the usual sensory routine of everyday life, sometimes by the use of drugs
or ritual. Compare with Apollonian. - Ruth
Benedict, Patterns of Culture (New York: Mentor Books, 1960).
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