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About this book
If creativity is the highest expression of the life impulse, why do creative individuals who have made lasting contributions to the arts and sciences so often end their lives? M.F. Alvarez addresses this central paradox by exploring the inner lives and works of eleven creative visionaries who succumbed to suicide. Through a series of case studies, Alvarez shows that creativity and suicide are both attempts to authenticate and resolve personal catastrophes that have called into question the most basic conditions of human existence.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- The Paradox of Suicide and Creativity
- The Paradox of Suicide and Creativity: Authentications of Human Existence
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter 1
- āYou Will Rescue Objects from Oblivionā
- Chapter 2
- āHaunted By the Vivid Memories of Killingsā
- Interlude I
- Is Creativity Intrinsically Healing?
- Chapter 3
- āGive Me One Good Reason to Stayā
- Chapter 4
- āA Dry Place to Call Their Homeā
- Chapter 5
- Individuation through Poetry and Death
- Interlude II
- Creativity and Temporality
- Chapter 6
- āThe Soul We Have Loved, the Soul that Has Left Usā
- Chapter 7
- A Lifelong Project of Resurrection
- Interlude III
- Suicide as Authentication of the Self
- Chapter 8
- Existence through Annihilation
- Chapter 9
- āBeauty Is a Dissident Forceā
- Chapter 10
- The Drama of the Disintegrating Self
- Interlude IV
- The Medicalization of Life and Death
- References
- Index
- About the Author