By Lida Prypchan “Comedy, such a great thing, amusing entertainment to occupy the time of idle people that diverts thoughts from offensive sadness.” Lope de Vega. Dedicated to those who have the capacity for change. Venezuela is a despondent and pessimistic country, but it is not sad. This despondency and pessimism …
August 2013 archive
The Mirror and the Mask
By Lida Prypchan The High King fought the battle of Clontarf. After his triumph, he spoke to a poet to sing about his victory and write him a playlet. He told him: Would you like both of us to become immortal? Are you able to carry out what I have asked you? The poet, …
The Mona Lisa and the Virgin with Child and St. Anne: Leonardo Da Vinci III
By Lida Prypchan In the other two documents, the personality of Leonardo Da Vinci was analyzed, based on phrases found in his diary and a childhood memory that was decisive in his spiritual development. On this occasion, I will present the consequence of his childhood memories, of those sad years together with his abandoned …
THE DAY THAT BOYLE FORGOT ABOUT ARISTOTLE
By Lida Prypchan Robert Boyle, the precursor of modern chemistry, was a child prodigy who at age eight spoke three languages: English, which was his mother tongue, Latin and French. He was the fourteenth son of the Count of Cork, born in Lismore Castle, Ireland, on January 25, 1627 and died in London …
Learned Fools
By Lida Prypchan Saying foolish things correctly is one of the rarest fruits of modern teaching. Anonymous. The graduate in philosophy went to the platform. He definitely kept his enormous mouth open for two hours. During that prolonged lapse of time, the speaker gave a lecture full of strange and badly-used words. …
Intuition
By Lida Prypchan Intuition is a really valuable factor. Albert Einstein. The word intuition has slightly different usages. It is defined as a sudden understanding or clarification of a situation, a bright idea that oftentimes blossoms in one’s conscious and which may occur to us when we are not consciously thinking about …
Freud’s Psychoanalysis
by Lida Prypchan Freud’s theories have had a great influence on the cultural life of this century, probably much greater than that of any other doctrinal system. The field where his ideas have encountered the greatest difficulties has been that of his own terrain, Psychiatry. Psychoanalysis is still polemical, although many of the current discoveries …
FREUD a Potential Literati
by Lida Prypchan He passed on to another stage in his life in which decadent poetry began to attract his attention. A Dalmatian poet was committed in a private mental ward, and went mad over a shadow. His beloved was a “queen of the screen” and she smiled at him from the screen. From then …
Beyond Love and Hate Leonardo Da Vinci I
by Lida Prypchan Leonardo Da Vinci was one of the most important figures of the Italian Renaissance, a multi-talented genius, whose limits we can only imagine and never define – as Bukhardt said-. He exerted an intense influence on painting during his time. However, his greatness as the physics researcher contained in the artist has …
A Childhood Memory: Leonardo Da Vinci II
by Lida Prypchan In the previous article, some traits of Leonardo’s personality were given. It concluded by saying that Leonardo, that enigmatic being from the Renaissance era, felt a great repulsion regarding sex. I quoted some phrases this artist uttered to show what he was like. All of this forms part of a psychoanalytic study …