Schizophrenia patient and poet
We often hear that the artist is psychic, or vice versa. They must share some similarities. I was reading a paper, "Poetry and Schizophrenia" by Ronald W. Pies. He gave the examples of E.E.Cummings and Christopher Smart, who are both poet and had psychotic problem. And he cited an anecdote of James Joyce. "It is said that James Joyce had brought his psychotic daughter to the eminent Dr.Jung for treatment. Joyce, aware of the pecaularities in his own language, asked Jung what difference there was between his art and his daughter’s psychotic expressions. Jung replied, ‘She falls. You leap.’"
Dear, you may also look at the case of Philip Dick, the writer of Blade Runner, who’s a contemporary case for a famous writer whose physic condition is a well-known disaster.
Comment by vv — September 10, 2008 @ 12:42 am