acrasia การใช้
- Acrasia is itself a play on the Greek akrasia that describes loss of free will.
- Guyon captures Acrasia in a net, destroys the Bower, and rescues those imprisoned there.
- Guyon discovers a woman killing herself out of grief for having her lover tempted and bewitched by the witch Acrasia and killed.
- Finally, they come to Acrasia's Island and the Bower of Bliss, where Guyon resists temptations to violence, idleness, and lust.
- The term acrasin was descriptively named after Acrasia from Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene, who seduced men against their will and then transformed them into beasts.
- A peak of such acrasia was perhaps reached in the 1960s cult of letting it all hang out of breakdown, acting out and emotional self-indulgence and drama.
- In Edmund Spenser's " The Faerie Queene ", book II, Acrasia, the embodiment of intemperance dwelling in the " Bower of Bliss ", had the Circe-like capacity of transforming her lovers into monstrous animal shapes.