Virginia Woolf: enfermedad mental y creatividad artística / Virginia Woolf as an example of a mental disorder and artistic creativity
Rev. méd. Chile
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133(11): 1381-1388, nov. 2005. ilus
Artículo
en Español
| LILACS, MINSALCHILE
| ID: lil-419943
RESUMO
This is an attempt to evaluate the mental disorder that the novelist Virginia Woolf suffered, and to determine the relatioship between her creativity and her insanity. What mostly characterizes her illness is the presence of typical phases of severely impairing depression and significant hypomania, culminating in suicide at the age of 59. This is a convincing life history of a bipolar II disorder, although the «broad bipolar spectrum¼ is less easy to define operational than bipolar disorder I. She was moderately stable as well as exceptionally productive from 1915 until she committed suicide in 1941. Virginia Woolf created little or nothing while she was unwell, and was productive between attacks. A detailed analysis of her own creativity over the years shows that her illnesses were the source of material for her novels.
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Asunto principal:
Trastorno Bipolar
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Creatividad
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Personajes
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Literatura
País/Región como asunto:
Europa
Idioma:
Español
Revista:
Rev. méd. Chile
Año:
2005
Tipo del documento:
Artículo
Institución/País de afiliación:
Universidad de Valparaíso/CL
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