VOLUME 4(4) • 2016
Intensive creative episodes and creative blocks
ABSTRACT. Our biopsychosocial approach implies, for a start, that there is a personality-based connection between (domain-specific) creativity and psychopathology, the latter meeting the eye especially during intensive creative episodes and creative blocks. The questionnaires and the interviews we h..
Christian priesthood
ABSTRACT. From the very beginning of its existence, mankind felt a strong desire to enter into communion with higher, divine beings, calling them in different ways and displaying various attitudes in the relationship, generally reverence, obedience, invocation. As regards representation, the person ..
The rise of the underground (II): Thomas Chatterton’s (dis)enchanted universe
ABSTRACT. Thomas Chatterton came to be regarded as the enfant terrible of the English letters, who in the decades and century that followed his untimely death turned the British literary scene upside down. The rebellious personality of this enfant terrible reminds one today of Sinclair Lewis, who ju..
The role of sculpture and pottery in African culture
ABSTRACT. This paper represents the point of view of two artists who see their areas of art, sculpture and pottery/ceramics as being very important in the day-to-day functions of African traditional society. The emphasis is on ‘traditional’ or ‘indigenous’ because the African continent, south of the..
Gnostic other-voicedness
ABSTRACT. This article deals with the collective consciousness of Russian society in Vladimir Nabokov’s “Invitation to a Beheading” from a socio-political perspective with subtle references to the novel’s historical background. The novel treats of a majority whose class consciousness of anxiety as a..
Expressionism as rite and transfer
ABSTRACT. Going beyond the surface of expressionist aesthetics (beyond the visible and easily recognizable stylistic repertoire) to the genesis of this movement around a totally volatile concept, ethereal like the new pathos, this foray into the genetic realm of expressionism shall clarify its essen..
Rossini: the Gourmet of ‘Bel Canto’
ABSTRACT. In the context of several theories pointing out the link between psychopathology and artistic creativity the aim of this retrospective investigation, based on Rossini’s various biographies, is to bring into focus the possible impact of the bipolar spectrum disorders and, comorbidly, syphil..
Medical truants
ABSTRACT. Medical studies attracted a lot of students for centuries on end, but not always did the physicians take their first choice. Some of them came to develop other interests. Some others abandoned medicine and “donated” themselves to science, literature, art, law or politics (the real “truants..
Primeval time: selective memory of the self
ABSTRACT. The place where the rush of adrenaline is at home is transferred in Hemingway onto the ancient African continent, the cradle of mankind and manhood, a place which is still untouched by the vicissitudes of over-developed societies. It is, most likely, the last geographical space within whic..
Impolite and socially unacceptable writing
ABSTRACT. A SWAT Officer in Texas, an Undercover Narcotics Investigator, and a trial consultant in criminal defense cases for most of his professional life, Bill Jonke grew up in a Chicago lakefront suburb, the background for these narratives that, based on antisocial behaviour or just plain idiocy ..
Maria, the Princess
ABSTRACT. The following is, on the face of it, a love story unfolding in Paris and such fascinating places as Sable d’Olone, Monte Carlo, Cannes, the Loire Valley. But it is much more than that, a meaningful parable dealing with the East/West dichotomy, with Eastern Europe playing the title-role of ..