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The Dionysian comes from Dionysius, the god of wine and fertility, who was worshipped with drunken orgies in the woods at which nonparticipants were ripped to pieces.
The Apollonian line begins with Washington Irving, the Dionysian with James Fenimore Cooper.
The late Versace, with his Miami colors, outrageous impracticality, and explicit sexuality, is the Dionysian.
In all of them, scenes of repressive formality (hoary English actors sipping sherry in drawing rooms) would be shattered by scenes of Dionysian release (Dracula or some other fanged entity swooping down in an animalistic frenzy), and an aristocratic figure of both science and Christian faith--usually the crisply self-satisfied Peter Cushing--would show up to lecture the frightened villagers and pound a stake through the heaving bosom of some temptress.
The Dionysian mixes bad taste with good taste, pain with pleasure.