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Cyclothymia, an old and recent illness ... An atypical history.

While emotional intelligence is increasingly recognized (Gardner Intelligence personal and emotional for Goleman) and it remains an unparalleled advantage in the art persuasion, a broadening of the concept of intelligence to include knowledge of human beings, intelligence in moral matters is possible. In the words of Howard Gardner in "Intelligence Reframed"
as character, morality can be important-in fact more important than intelligence, but it should not be confused with intelligence?
He believes that no exceptional personalities that were studied examples of intelligence "morals" exception may be Gandhi. Picasso, Eliot, Graham, Freud, Stravinsky, and even by Einstein himself showed the insensitivity entity in many aspects of their personal lives while engaging sometimes for great causes.

Matthieu Ricard has written an excellent book with his father Jean-Francois Revel on Buddhism. He recounts his conversion and the philosophy of the Dalai Lama in "The Monk and the Philosopher" in which he confesses, "Yes I met Igor Stravinsky and other great musicians. So I had the chance to meet many of those who are admired in the West, and to be able to get a sense of wonder: Is this is what I aspire? Do I want to become like them? I felt I stay on my hunger, because despite my admiration, I could not fail to note that the genius shown by these men in a particular area, not accompanied perfections of humankind's most simple, like altruism, kindness, sincerity. "

These human qualities are they incompatible with creativity?

Can we be creative without contemplating himself?

there is inevitably a dark side which leads to selfishness and often megalomania and paranoia though unpleasant, but apparently necessary for creativity .

Psychologists noted that self-centeredness (other than self-interest) declined in humans but not in creative individuals. Similarly, Jean Piaget explains that, in children, "sensorimotor egocentrism is progressively reduced." Indeed, transforming an original idea in a comprehensible form requires a "strong ego."
Howard Gardner noted that the insurance whose creators were approached proof of a form of selfishness, egotism and narcissism. They are absorbed in their projects and it is not uncommon for the pursuit of their objectives leads to act to the detriment of others.

According to psychologist Eysenck, such a mixture of creative ability and insensitivity may have a genetic basis. Narcissism example of Kafka or Martha Graham meant they would not commit emotionally to a certain stage in their life not to halt their creative capacity. The ambiguity of the feelings of the artist is well reflected in the American film released this year "Capote." The desire for fame, selfishness or manipulation but may be compassion and love each other - Spiritual or physical - and hypersensitivity, mix in the same creative person.

We have an interesting document concerning the character of Picasso, this is the book published in 2002 by Marina Picasso, entitled "Picasso, my grandfather." She gave an interview to Barcelona daily La Vanguardia, February 14, 2002 with the title: "We can not be a genius and a good person (" buena persona "). "A cruel genius who destroyed many lives, my grandfather died alone, with a courtyard of courtiers; An artistic genius but also a cruel person who knew not be loved or love "(...)." All the women were finally materials for his art; Because the great artist devotes all his time and energy to his art, and everything is "all": all that remains nothing for the people around him "....
The filmd'Agnès Jaoui in 2004, "Comme une image" is remarkable and if true, it tells the story of Lolita Cassard, twenty years of suffering, for his Father Etienne Cassard is not much interested in her and in general "look the other bit, because he looks a lot himself," as stated in the synopsis.

In one of his last books on multiple intelligences, "Intelligence Reframed, Howard Gardner believes that none of the outstanding individuals he studied were examples of intelligence" morals "exception may be Gandhi. Picasso, Eliot, Graham, Freud, Stravinsky, and even Einstein demonstrated in his view of the moral insensibility in many aspects of their personal lives while engaging sometimes for great causes.

My own analysis follows that of Gardner, although some behaviors may be explained by the misunderstanding of his own suffering or self-therapy by the lust for power and domination of the other ...

Marx believed that trade was essentially a dishonest activity, but nothing prevents an honest merchant (eg the Quakers) release only minimal profits to pay themselves a fair wage. This applies to all trades.

Being ethical is just respect each other.

Vauvenargues said: "We must console themselves for not having the talent, as we comfort of not having large spaces: one can be above one and the other by the heart "

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Creativity and Ethics: an unlikely couple?

Between the second half of the XVIII to the beginning of XIX, France and Europe experienced a period of exalted personality cyclothymic especially through the cult of sensibility that seems outdated today, "unhealthy" (Kramer in "Listening to Prozac").


Diderot and Rousseau had opted for a philosophy of truth and sensitivity close to nature as Seneca the thought: "Incidentally, I agree with all the Stoics, I give my consent to Nature, not not deviate from it, tune in its law and example, that is wisdom. A happy life is one that accords with their nature (...). Definition of true happiness (a happy life, III, 3)

Rousseau said, "Be just and you are happy," "I do not draw these principles to the high philosophy, but I find them deep in my heart."

nature for Rousseau is a guarantee of authenticity and simplicity. "Let maxim that the first movements of nature are always right there is no original perversity in the human heart. It is not there one vice of which we can not say how and where he entered "(Emile, II).

In The Reveries of the Solitary Walker (SECOND RIDE), Rousseau begins his narrative in this way: (...) These hours of solitude and meditation are the only of the day when I am fully myself and me without diversion, without obstacle, and where I can truly say be what nature intended. "

In Confessions and La Nouvelle Heloise, Rousseau has every opportunity to unburden himself and unleash its sensitivity "feminine" as he says.

Goethe, with the bust of Rousseau on his desk a few years later wrote that romanticism was the disease because for him, aspecrt morbid and narcissistic romanticism was in contradiction with a classical ideal which makes do was more: think of the morbidity of the young Goethe's Werther !

In France, Vauvenargues appears as a figure of pre-romanticism (the heart and sesnibilité occupy a central place in his philosophy) as well as the brilliant Chamfort. L'Abbé Prévost

and his character Desgrieux struggle between reason and emotions in a chaotic and bipolar space where the hero is aware of his disqualification but incapable of reasoning.

I can not resist to quote Diderot who launches into a perfect description of the cyclothymic constitution that Gaston and Pierre Deny Kahn would not disown:

"Blessed is he who has received from nature a sensitive soul and mobile! It carries the source a multitude of delicious moments that others ignore. All men grieve, but he alone knows to complain and cry (...). It's his heart that links his ideas. He who has the spirit, that genius does not hear. It is an organ that they lack. The language of the heart is a thousand times more diverse than that of the mind, and it is impossible to give the rules of his dialectic. "

Letter to Sophie Volland.

sensitivity, as the only meaning we have given so far this term, is, in my opinion, this provision companion weak bodies, continued mobility of the diaphragm, the vivacity of imagination, the delicacy of nerves, which is inclined to sympathize, to shiver, to admire, to fear, to be troubled, crying, to faint, to rescue, to flee, screaming, mad, to exaggerate, to despise, to disdain, to have no clear idea of truth, goodness and beauty, to be unfair to be mad. Multiply the faint of heart, and you multiply the same proportion of good and bad deeds of all kinds, praise and blame outraged.
(paradox of the actor).


The degenerate artist by Max Nordau is as follows: " He is very proud to be an instrument that vibrates so strongly, and he boasts of his whole being felt torn inside, his soul resolved, and experience to the fingertips pleasure of beauty, where the Philistine remains completely cold. His excitability seemed superior, he believes have a particular understanding is lacking in other mortals, and he willingly despise the vulgar whose senses are dulled and closed. The unfortunate not suspect that he is proud of a disease and boasts of a mental disorder. "

Compare it extracted "positivist" alleging the book, "Degeneration" (a term taken over by the Nazis a bit with the same purpose Nordau that) with the section of Diderot (paradox of the actor)!


We see through these texts that the issue rarely addressed by physicians and therapists is the "Goodness of fit". Kramer explains that a capitalist society views these traits as depressive or cyclothymic or sickly. But would have thought of Rousseau, Diderot and Goethe?
Jamison explains in Touch With Fire (p.5): "A Common Assumption, for instance, Is That Within artistic circles madness Somehow IS normal.

She tells a detail the biography of the poet Robert Lowell began a manic episode. His wife worried but these academic colleagues and friends were Cicinnati he behaved like a poet when his wife saw him sick. While she was concerned and referred to the symptoms, they replied that this was the foolishness to them that it was "further proof of the genius of Lowell.

As I wrote, cyclothymia was the norm and it may still be in certain places or environments.