M. F. Alvarez

The Paradox of Suicide and Creativity

Authentications of Human Existence

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Produktbeschreibung

Through a series of case studies, the author explores the paradoxical relationship between creativity and self-destruction. Creativity and suicide, he argues, are both avenues to the resolution of personal catastrophes, with the door to suicide becoming unlocked when creativity's restitutive powers fail.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 489g
• ISBN-13: 9781498523820
• ISBN-10: 149852382X
• Artikelnr.: 60063804

Autorenporträt

By M.F. Alvarez - Foreword by George Atwood

Inhaltsangabe

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