By Lida Prypchan What I admire about Mr. J. M. is his ability to examine the souls of those around him. At the first contact, a look, a few sentences, a handshake and J. M. already knows who the other person is. I always tell him that he should work in the identification offices. …
By Lida Prypchan “We can conceive of a world dominated by an invisible tyranny which adopts the form of a democratic government.” Kenneth Boulding In the same way in which we are sold a commercial product, the same is …
By Lida Prypchan “Politics is the art of preventing people from getting involved in what concerns them.” Valéry Political propaganda has been inspired by and has taken from poetry many of its procedures: the seduction of rhythm, the prestige of the verb, the violence of images, and dramatic progression. It …
By Lida Prypchan (Based on the movie “The Deputy” or “The Immoral Life of a Public Man,”directed by Eloy de la Iglesia and starring Luisa San José and José Sacristan) Accompanied by the same as always (loneliness), the congressman is thinking; a transcendental fact manages to make him mature more in a few hours …
By Lida Prypchan Two blocks from the house is a zoo. Every Sunday, my brothers, cousins, parents, and other visiting family members and I go to the zoo. After all, there’s nothing else to do apart from looking at each other’s faces and we prefer to go and see the faces of the animals. …
By Lida Prypchan The great agent of progress in the world is pain and the unhappy being that wishes to develop themselves and cannot find easy means to do so. Renán Over six hundred years ago, a Florentine man far from his country and at the end of the day of a life …
By Lida Prypchan The genesis and content of a number of disciplines or activities outside the scope of medicine has repeatedly been psychoanalyzed. In this regard, the attention of psychoanalysts has addressed the history of religions, prehistory, mythology and, especially, literature and art. In this task, what psychoanalysts seek is to explain the psychological …
By Lida Prypchan Glenn Gould has been described in many different ways…. An article written by Tom Service described Glenn as a “wilfully idiotic genius.” (Service, 2012). He was also described him as “An avoidable presence”, “ahead of his time, a prophet even.” Service conveys that even thirty years after Gould’s passing, he continues to …
By Lida Prypchan Brilliance, protégée, or extremely talented are terms often used with one who has high intellect or spectacular talents that defy what is considered the norm. Not often do we see the term brilliance utilized outside of this arena. There are however times when one takes pause to explore the extraordinary accomplishments …
By Lida Prypchan http://ppplusa.ning.com/photo/albums/georgia-o-keeffe-art-work Does visual art speak for the creator, revealing that person’s personality in their paintings? Or does the painting speak about its subject, the landscape as it unfolds on the horizon, for example, at a certain time of day with particular lighting? Georgia O’Keeffe insisted that her paintings were not about …
