While emotional intelligence is increasingly recognized ("personal intelligence" for Gardner and "emotional" for Goleman), the notion of moral intelligence has recently emerged, such as in the book Gardner, "Good Work".
This explains in "Intelligence reframed" as that character, morality can be important-in fact more important than intelligence, but it should not be confused with intelligence. I note that Gardner
emphasizes that intelligence is not necessarily something positive. Indeed believe in "evil geniuses" of the last century whose intelligence was so destructive.
In France, we value too much intellect, culture, IQ, the family name in favor of honesty. When intelligence specialists in France they will write a book like "Good Work" (Gardner et al) on the importance, need for an ethic of work and rest?
He believes that none of the exceptional individuals that were studied examples of intelligence "morals" exception may be Gandhi. Indeed, 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.
Matthieu Ricard talks about his conversion and the philosophy of the Dalai Lama in "The Monk and the Philosopher" in which he acknowledges:
"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 had sense to 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, such as altruism, kindness, sincerity. " is a key issue that Eysenck discusses his work on engineering, explaining that the creative personality has always something "asocials" he calls "psychotycisme.
Morel (1857) but especially Lombroso and Nordau in 1895 (dégénérationistes) had aptly described the creative personality in terms of more than obscure the issue by raising immoral and sometimes dangerous geniuses studied (see Handbook of Creativity p. 143) that qualify Martindale Eysenck and later of "uninhibited" (creativity is a "disinhibition syndrome" because there is no behavioral inhibition or cognitive). These unusual individidus are characterized by egocentrism, originality excessive and inappropriate in general.
Can we be creative without contemplating himself?
Very often the creative personality has a attitude that reflects selfishness, megalomania and paranoia, but apparently necessary for creativity.
Psychologists have noted that self-centeredness (other than self-interest) declined in humans but not in creative individuals.
Narcissism example of Kafka or Martha Graham has 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 "Capote." The desire for fame, selfishness or manipulation but may be compassion and love for 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 could not be loved or to love (...). All women were finally materials for his art; Because the great artist devotes all his time and energy to his art, and everything is "all" there is nothing left for the people around him. Note, however, she lives in the house of the painter, "California" and has inherited many paintings by Picasso.
the theaters, the film of Agnes Jaoui in 2004, "Comme une image" is remarkable and if true, it tells the story Lolita Cassard, twenty years suffering because his father Etienne Cassard is not much interested in her and in general "look the other bit, because it looks very much himself," as stated in the synopsis.
If we wanted a more medical explanation for this, although it is tempting to define a gear that manic or hypomanic personality "by then good and evil and self-centered but you have to reckon with education , values and environment to truly understand the formation of personality and the side "destructive" inhuman and creativity.
It may be an extreme condition and not understood and "cured" through the work be it scientific, artistic or otherwise. It is my thesis in my book on creativity and bipolarity. The side effects and collateral damage are numerous and sometimes kill the entourage and the individual himself.
