GEORGE PICKERING, Creative malady. Illness in the lives and minds of Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Mary Baker Eddy, Sigmund Freud, Marcel Proust, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, London, G. Allen & Unwin, 1974, 8vo., pp. 327, illus., £5.25. Professor Sir George Pickering explores the fascinating paradox of illness as a benefit, not only to the patient, but also to society. Thus, in the case ...

GEORGE PICKERING, Creative malady. Illness in the lives and minds of Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Mary Baker Eddy, Sigmund Freud, Marcel Proust, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, London, G. Allen & Unwin, 1974, 8vo., pp. 327, illus., £5.25. Professor Sir George Pickering explores the fascinating paradox of illness as a benefit, not only to the patient, but also to society. Thus, in the case ...

According to Seneca, the ability excel beyond one’s destiny in any circumstance makes one noble. One of those who succeeded without fail was Jacques Guérin, a chemist made major contribution creation and subsequent codification myth carefully moulded around most important figures modern culture, Marcel Proust. Although relics Proust’s life oeuvre, that trained industrialist Guérin preserved, ar...

This essay takes up the encounter between philosophy and literature through a reconsideration of Walter Benjamin’s remarks from “On Some Motifs in Baudelaire” about Henri Bergson’s Matière et mémoire as an attempt “[t]owering above” other ventures into Lebensphilosophie to “lay hold of the ‘true’ experience, as opposed to the kind that manifests itself in the standardized, denatured life of the...

Reading can at times engage one emotionally and entail inner psychological experiences in ways akin to those in clinical psychoanalysis. In that light, after a general introduction regarding the import of reading, attention is turned to Proust, Freud's literary complement, as an exemplary instance to illustrate those similarities. Ideas of Proust on reading are followed by thoughts on reading P...