Title : Genius and Madness - Philippe Brenot - book

Summary :

Rimbaud's hallucinatory crises; the manic-depressive phases of Goethe, Nerval, Schumann; Munch's anxiety; the drug addiction of Coleridge, Baudelaire, Cocteau; Michelangelo's temperamental escapades or Satie's eccentricities; the suicidal tendencies of Gauguin, Van Gogh, Woolf; the collapse of Nietzsche or Camille Claudel; Artaud's schizophrenia; the depression of Beethoven, Pessoa or Wittgenstein: in literature, painting, music, one could endlessly extend the list of exceptional personalities in whom genius and madness coexisted. Creative exaltation then mixes with melancholy, mania, and delirium. Philippe Brenot explores these extraordinary destinies which pose this central question: does creativity always draw its source from inner suffering? And does genius necessarily pass through dementia or despondency? When advances in psychiatry shed light on the mystery of creation... Philippe Brenot is a psychiatrist and writer, teaching at the University of Paris-V. His publications include Sex and Love, Inventing the Couple, and The Lost Manuscript of Romain Gary.

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