Nietzsche called artists "sick animals". Japanese Masaxiu Hamada wrote an Introduction to Literature and Art, saying: Some people surveyed 782 celebrities, 83% of whom were extremely insane, and only 6.5% were healthy.
Great artists often suffer from schizophrenia. Flaubert suffered from epilepsy; Nikolai Nikolai Gogol suffers from undiagnosed mental illness; Maupassant and Heine were paralyzed by syphilis, and they both went to a mental hospital. Maupassant is lascivious, and when he gets sick, he talks nonsense, saying that he raped women all over the world, that he wanted God to catch smallpox, and that his stomach was full of diamonds. Nicola Nikolai Gogol's Diary of a Madman may be a portrayal of his own symptoms; Pushkin drank too much, went whoring, had children with female slaves, and abandoned them. He praised Anna, the silly girl who entrusted herself to him; Dickens eulogized his warm family and loyal husband and wife, but he never cared about his six children and three daughters in his life. He lived with his elder sister and married his elder sister. Because of drinking, Ye Saining often turned to a psychiatrist for help. After marrying Duncan, her spirit improved, but she achieved nothing in creation. After the relationship between them broke down, his spirit collapsed again, but excellent works kept emerging; Dostoevsky suffered from sheep madness, gambling and losing everything; David Jelf Gott is a famous pianist in Australia. He had a nervous breakdown due to excessive pressure. Vincent Van Gogh was insane and cut off his ear; John nash, the American Nobel laureate in economics, suffers from mental illness. The film A Beautiful Mind tells the story of his legendary life. The famous American novelist Zelda Fitzgerald and writer Pound are both mentally ill. Pound stayed in a mental hospital for twelve years, where he continued his creation. At 75, he fell in love with a 23-year-old woman. After failure, he felt empty, stopped writing and talking, and did nothing all day until he died. Hemingway is also abnormal in life. Stein, a female writer, once said something unpleasant to him. He was so angry that he threatened to kick her. A critic said that he would fly from Cuba to new york to teach this man a lesson. He is crazy about matadors. Some people say that he has a "death desire", and he uses this desire to satisfy his abuse and being abused. Finally, Hemingway committed suicide; O 'Neill, an American dramatist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature, is also a psychopath. In the end, he couldn't tell the roles on and off the stage at all, but was completely absorbed in the script. ...
Moreover, many talented artists with mental illness are related to their families. Tolstoy: There are many mental patients in my father's family. He himself suffers from hysteria and epilepsy. Lermontov: My father suffers from schizophrenia, and he himself suffers from schizophrenia; Schumann: My father was a literary genius. My mother was insane before she died. My sister and her son were both mentally ill. Schumann committed suicide; Dostoevsky: My father's brothers are addicted to alcohol; My sister is mentally ill, my son is an idiot, and he has epilepsy himself; Joyce is a great Irish writer and the author of Ulysses. He was poor and mentally abnormal. His daughter is mentally ill. He and his wife live a separate life. In my later years, sitting alone in a lonely lamp is extremely bleak. ...
Because artists have mental problems, their suicide rate is much higher than others. There are Kleist, Keweig, Hemingway, Van Gogh, Akutagawa, Osamu Dazai, Mishima, Kawabata Yasunari, Woolf, Jack London, Plath, Ye Saining, Mayakovski, fadeev and Zweig ... There are countless suicides abroad.
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. There are many interesting overlaps in the writing and content of The Pain of Wisdom, that is, many excellent and beautiful psychological works are written by mental patients. So did Andrew Solomon, Elizabeth Swado (the author of My Depression) and Robert Burton in the Renaissance-his voluminous prose Analysis of Depression was highly praised by everyone, including Dr. Johnson and Lamb. Burton's article is beautiful, interesting and reasonable. He proposed some interesting and effective treatments for future generations. For example, he quoted David playing the piano for the soul in the Bible and put forward the view that music can drive away mental patients. The book also advises young women to get married to solve their worries. However, Burton has been plagued by depression for 40 years and he has never been married. Like many writers, writing is his way out and the only way to resist death.
Morita Shoma, the Japanese inventor of Morita therapy, is also a psychopath.
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1. In the real world, what kind of people do we regard as crazy? Among the people we usually regard as crazy, who are not really crazy?
First of all, normal people will call a person who is diagnosed with a certain mental illness a madman. Secondly, normal people will also call some people who often play cards against common sense crazy. Normal people often make some small mistakes in identifying lunatics. One of the most common mistakes is to confuse lunatics with some mentally retarded people with low IQ. In fact, the intelligence level of a real madman is the same as that of a normal person. Even some lunatics have a much higher level of intelligence than normal people.
Van Gogh, Nietzsche, Hemingway, Ye Saining, Kawabata Yasunari, Yukio Mishima, Sanmao ... These elite human beings all suffer from what psychologists call "excessive intelligence". Most of them are introverted, withdrawn, focused on their studies and able to receive higher education. However, due to the abnormality of its own gene sequence, its offspring are prone to "problems", that is, "one generation comes first, one generation declines" as the folks say.
Of course, it is worth studying why most autistic children have received higher education, and it is also worth discussing that genetic disorder may be the driving force of the "Great Leap Forward" in intelligence. However, it is undeniable that a group of musical geniuses, physicists and top talents have been created. It is because of their existence that human evolution keeps moving forward.
I give these examples here for only one purpose, that is, to prove that a madman is not an idiot and that his IQ is not low! So please understand that the madman mentioned in this book is not a person with low IQ. And there are two kinds of crazy people in my book, one is really mentally ill, and the other is people who don't play cards according to common sense.
Second, when a normal person becomes crazy, can he do some normal things and engage in some difficult jobs?
The answer is yes! Some facts in human history have proved that it is some crazy people who show unique concentration and enthusiasm for things and work that have produced many great inventions and outstanding arts. Here are some convincing examples for you.
Jamison, a psychologist at UCLA, has a list of patients with depressive psychosis in Zhang Zao. It looks like a who's who of first-class artists and writers, including composers Gandel and Berlioz, poet and painter Luo Saidi, playwright Eugene O 'Neill, writers Balzac Virginia wolf Ruschi, Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Lamb.
The great scientist Einstein was also an obsessive-compulsive disorder patient. He used to think about what an object looks like when it moves faster than or reaches the speed of light. Later, some scientists praised this obsessive-compulsive disorder as the most important research method of contemporary physics-physical experiment.
So please don't be surprised when the madman in this book is engaged in some normal things and difficult jobs.
Third, is it possible for a madman to perceive something that normal people can't? Can a madman create some miracles that normal people can't?
The answer is yes! Many lunatics are often particularly keen, impulsive, enthusiastic and creative at the peak of their illness. These phenomena cannot be perfectly explained by science. Some experts in psychiatry explain that some patients with mental disorders can capture something that normal people can't understand, which is often called the sixth sense or superpower. Let me give you an example.
Composer Gandel finished the famous work Messiah in the most serious period of 24 days. The famous composer Schumann scribbled on the wall when he was in a trance, and some people who are good at it copied it down. This is the famous music Goddess of Dreams.
The modernist painter Van Gogh was seriously insane at the peak of his creation. He was poor at that time and fell out with Gauguin. When he goes to a brothel, he can't afford to pay. The prostitute jokingly said to him, "Cut off your ear and give it to me!" " Soon Van Gogh really cut off his ear. His masterpiece "Self-portrait" was created after he lost his ear.
When Cao Yu, a playwright in China, wrote Sunrise, his emotions were frightening! He described it this way: "In the outbreak of emotions, I once broke many memorable things, and my voice was hoarse in despair. At that time, I hoped everything would be destroyed. I jumped around on the ground like a wounded beast, licking the salty soil. "
Hamilton, a great Scottish mathematician in the 19th century, was crazy about quaternion operation. He kept this state for many years, until fifteen years later, he felt that this problem was solved by an accidental opportunity, that is to say, this crazy state has been pestering him for at least fifteen years. Hamilton's "abnormal psychology" is different from many mental patients, and he can at least return to the normal state and reality.
Through the above examples, I hope that when you read Crazy World, you won't be particularly surprised by some actions of the madman in the pathological state!
4. Is it possible for a madman to have his own closed world?
The answer is still yes! Here I use a very famous example to illustrate this point.
As the founder of psychoanalysis, Freud was undoubtedly a genius. He devoted his life to saving those who suffered from mental illness and wrote related books. However, his own heart is always full of fear of death. From/kloc-0 to April, 922, when Freud was 65 years old, he had his first operation for cancer in the lower forehead until he died at the age of 83. In the meantime, he has been thinking about his own death. He is particularly afraid of dying in front of his parents. Freud fainted twice in his life because of the concept of "death", once talking about the swamp bodies in northern Germany. The other was at a strategy meeting in Munich. He regarded Jung, his capable student, as his own child, and had the illusion of "killing his father" against Jung. From Freud's two faints, we can realize that this master who specializes in analyzing human spirit is sometimes abnormal. Freud died on1September 23rd, 939. The cause of death was that he missed another operation for lower forehead cancer. He hired a doctor to inject him with a lot of morphine and died.