It is interesting to note how the psychology of great artists varies to extremes. In common, their sincerity. But how they differ, for example, in the vision they have of their own work! On one hand, examples such as Kafka and Flaubert, in whom the work seems not only bad, but it hurts them, it afflicts them to have to create it and to see it, because they are guided by something like a necessity. On the other hand, there are figures like Nietzsche and Pessoa, where the discouragement in front of the mirror not only seems non-existent, but often we notice a striking immodesty. What to conclude? It is evident that great art is a destination to which multiple paths lead.
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There Are Adapted and Maladapted Human Beings
There are adapted and maladapted human beings, satisfied and unhappy, those who enjoy life and those who find it a nuisance. Those who live, those who think; comfort, discomfort; hope, delusion. There may be, in the human being, both dimensions; it may be that there are none. It is strange to observe the veiled consensus that there is a “normal”. The real question is: how to conduct the different and very natural mental dispositions? By answering it, we will notice that value is extracted from both equilibrium and chaos.
The Midlife Crisis
Many psychologists put too much emphasis on the nostalgic aspects of the so-called “midlife crisis”. I do not deny their importance, but I believe they are only the banal manifestation of a problem that may be much deeper. Midlife usually denotes facing failure, seeing what was once called a “dream” buried. In other cases, in cases of “success,” it characterizes the period when the uselessness of one’s achievements, the stupidity of daily life, and the lack of spirit to move forward are exposed. All of this is due to frustration with the present, not a desire to relive the past. At twenty, life is interesting because it is promising, because it is full of “perspectives” that time takes care to eclipse. The individual then finds himself immersed in a vacuum. Ultimately, middle-age does nothing but highlight the meaninglessness of existence. But it also makes him open his eyes and reason, and if there is something we can call “maturity,” it usually requires what clinical psychology calls “depression”. The depressed person testifies his mental sanity.
The Risk of Not Seeing the Obvious
The analytical mind, while endowed with great talent in giving depth to the object being analyzed, in scrutinizing it, finds it difficult to visualize it in a dynamic environment, interconnected and in motion. On one hand, the ease in penetrating and capturing the essence of things, and on the other, the difficulty in visualizing the whole. Summarizing or, in other words, outlining superficially is what this mind refuses, depriving itself of a panoramic and often enlightening vision. The need to isolate and always go deeper, besides causing a lot of useless effort, can deprive it of seeing the essential.