["Intelligence draws, but it's the heart that shapes" - Rodin: maternal haptephobia in the service of art].

According to French clinicians, Auguste Rodin's mother suffered from haptephobia: her phobia concluded in avoiding to touch her son. This physical and emotional deprivation was a traumatic experience for the young Rodin, and both facilitated his artistic formation and lead to the birth of several artworks. 'Body' and 'touch' emerged to a central motif of his art, and into a sublimation process what we tend to interpret as the result of the maternal coldness. This psychobiographic study aims to examine the imprints of this development in the oeuvre, leaning on parallel analysis of artworks and biographical details.

[From womb to 'wave-yard': The poetics of Water in Sylvia Plath's oeuvre].

Due to her childhood spent on the Atlantic coast, the element of sea had a major influence on both Sylvia Plath's artistic carreer and personality. In the present paper we intend to offer a literature psychological analysis of the water metaphor in the oeuvre, focused on the following themes; The vital water; The fearful water; The passionate water and The healing water. Our aim through the analysis of her poetry and novels is to explore the role of this dual symbol in the life of the poet with a well-known polarized personality. Why water has become adequate to express her ambivalences? Finally, how did the relationship with the water element affect the personal life and illness of the author, and what impact of these can be unveiled in the oeuvre?

[Devil and God - The double role of Ted Hughes in Sylvia Plath's life and death].

The relationship of two, equally talented poets, as it can have whether a beneficient or inhibitory effect on both person's creative processes, is informative in a 'literature psychological' way. The present study aims to analyse the marriage of the poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Sylvia Plath's life was directed by several dualities; her polarized perspective, being likely the result of her psychiatric illness, has taken control over every area of her life. Although, its most important duality is in connexion with the laureate British poet, Ted Hughes: she idealized and hated the man - being both her love and spouse - at the same time. Their marriage, fecundating the poetry of both, has led to a tempestuous ending. Soon after, the young Sylvia took her own life, and the public - more or less implicitly stating - blames it on Ted Hughes. In the present study we tend to give a literature psychological analysis of their relationship, based on their autobiographical works and, focused on the stages leading to the crisis, to question whether the personality of Plath could have an effect on the ending of their marriage? Could these phenomena have contributed to the early death of Sylvia Plath - and, especially, what was Ted Hughes's role in this process?