Creation or Initiation of Wars as a Mental Disorder – “If You People will Not Collaborate (Don’t Do What We Tell You) We’ll Bomb You Back to the Stone Age!”
04 Mar
Posted by victor as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Uncategorized
War-mongering as a Psychopathic Behavior “Combines Traits of Narcissistic, Paranoid and Anti-Social Personality” As I began teaching military history to cadets at the Air Force Academy in 1990, I quickly became familiar with a flourishing “Cult of Clausewitz”… and with the American military’s fascination with German methods and the German military mystique. In the 1980s [...]
An Argument between Culture and Militarism – James Enzor’s “Enzor Arguing with General Lehman” (1890)
01 Mar
Posted by victor as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Uncategorized
The Belgian Precursor of Expressionism Personifies the Clash of Opposite Socio-Cultural Trends What are the painter and the general arguing about? Artists as people of sublime occupation (together with thinkers, scholars, philosophers, theologians, etc.) are always arguing with generals. The quarrel is always about who is in charge – the authoritarian leader armed with his [...]
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- Marina Tsvetaeva’s “The Poet and the Tsar” (1931) – Psychological Attributes of a Monarch
- Focus on American Intellectual Film Classics. Sidney Lumet’s “Long Day’s Journey into the Night” (1962) – Confrontations and Co-existence between Religious Psychology and Sprouts of Existential Spirituality
- Claude Miller (1942 – 2012) – A Poet-Psychoanalyst of Films On Traumatized Desire
- Joan Miro’s “Man and Woman in Front of a Pile of Excrement” (1936) – The Colors and Curves of Fascism
- Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Edipo Re”/”Oedipus Rex” (1967) – Knowledge without Explanation Is Directed Against Those Who Need It the Most
- Marina Tsvetaeva – From Poems to the Orphan: “Icy Tiara of Mountains”
- Focus on American Intellectual Film-Classics. John Huston’s “The Night of Iguana” (1964) - Overcoming the Conformist and Belligerent Ego: Birth of a Human Internal World
- Sofonisba Anguissola’s (1530 – 1620) Two Portraits of Young Aristocrats - From Childhood/Nature through Armor and Weapons to Self-Aggrandized Self-Image
- In Memoriam – Erland Josephson (1923 – 2012)
- Marguerite Duras’ “Nathalie Granger” (1972) – Glimpse of Eternity In Black and White
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