COLLECTIVE MADNESS, OR ONE CAN NOT GO MAD ALONE
Journal Title: Δόξα / Докса. Збірник наукових праць з філософії та філології - Year 2016, Vol 1, Issue
Abstract
This text represents an attempt to capture a stream of consciousness of the person who suddenly felt as a stranger in a mechanically arranged social community. The main feature of this consciousness is sharp, often unpredictable despondency and not less sharp, also unpredictable spiritual rises. It can be characterized as bipolar disorder, or manic-depressive psychosis. However, this state both in case of despondency and in case of spiritual rise can be the basis for creative activity. The perceived reality appears real as if it is seen for the first time. The author reveals a number of similar cases mainly in the field of poetry and philosophy, such as: Tsvetaeva, Pasternak, Mandelstam, Andrei Bely, Nietzsche and others. For the most part their works and life aren’t understood and aren’t accepted by society and can be considered as madness. However, in terms of creative consciousness, life of mechanistically arranged society, especially in realities of the technogenetic civilization can also be considered as collective madness. The key problem of the text is: who is mad and whether it is possible to make a clear distinction between schizophrenia (or disorder of thinking) and philosophical and poetic creativity
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Elena Sobolevskaya
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