Kreatywność, szaleństwo i modernizm

• Authors: Andrzej Kapusta

Title variants

EN

CREATIVITY, MADNESS AND MODERNITY

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

In the article Louis A. Sass's view on the relationship between madness and modern art is presented. Analyses of experiences within the schizophrenia spectrum disorders are the starting point for the questions on the character of human creativity and possibilities of understanding the person with mental disorder. Sass is against the romantic vision of creativity as regression – the moment in the direction of primitive emotionality, irrational mind states, and the feeling of connection with the world and the lack of the self-awareness. Such thinking is inconsistent with the innovative strategies in modern (and postmodern) art. Schizophrenic experience differs from post-romantic view of creativity and expresses in the forms of morbid hyperreflectivity and the feeling of alienation and disengagement. Robert J. Barret's critical remarks reveals some difficulties in Sass approach and the necessity for more sociological approach to mental illness.

Keywords

EN

MADNESS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; MODERNISM; CREATIVITY; LOUIS A; SASS

• Publisher: Science Studies Committee, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 47
• Issue: 4(190)
• Pages: 571-581

Contributors

author

Andrzej Kapusta

• Wydział Filozofii i Socjologii UMCS, pl. M. Curie-Skłodowskiej 4,20-031 Lublin, Poland