The Paradox of Suicide and Creativity

Authentications of Human Existence

M.F. Alvarez (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

204 Seiten

2020
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-2382-0 (ISBN)

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If creativity is the highest expression of the life impulse, why do creative individuals who have made lasting contributions to the arts and sciences so often end their lives? M.F. Alvarez addresses this central paradox by exploring the inner lives and works of eleven creative visionaries who succumbed to suicide. Through a series of case studies, Alvarez shows that creativity and suicide are both attempts to authenticate and resolve personal catastrophes that have called into question the most basic conditions of human existence.

M. F. Alvarez is postdoctoral diversity and innovation scholar in the Department of Communication at the University of New Hampshire.

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter 1: ‘You Will Rescue Objects from Oblivion’: The Case of Iris Chang

Chapter 2: ‘Haunted by the Vivid Memories of Killings’: The Case of Kevin Carter

Interlude I: Is Creativity Intrinsically Healing?

Chapter 3: ‘Give Me One Good Reason to Stay’: The Case of Phyllis Hyman

Chapter 4: ‘A Dry Place to Call Their Home’: The Case of Kurt Cobain

Chapter 5: Individuation through Poetry and Death: The Case of Sylvia Plath

Interlude II: Creativity and Temporality

Chapter 6: ‘The Soul We Have Loved, the Soul that Has Left Us’: The Case of Jeremy Blake and Theresa Duncan

Chapter 7: A Lifelong Project of Resurrection: The Case of Alan Turing

Interlude III: Suicide as Authentication of the Self

Chapter 8: Existence through Annihilation: The Case of Yukio Mishima

Chapter 9: ‘Beauty Is a Dissident Force’: The Case of Reinaldo Arenas

Chapter 10: The Drama of the Disintegrating Self: The Case of Robin Williams

Interlude IV: The Medicalization of Life and Death

Conclusion

References

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Vorwort	Professor of Psychology George Atwood Rutgers University
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 231 mm
Gewicht	485 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-4985-2382-X / 149852382X
ISBN-13	978-1-4985-2382-0 / 9781498523820
Zustand	Neuware