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Solitude

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by Anthony Storr


  19. Hermine Wittgenstein, ‘My Brother Ludwig’, in Ludwig Wittgenstein, Personal Recollections, edited by Rush Rhees (Oxford, 1981), p. 9.

  20. Norman Malcolm, op. cit., p. 20.

  21. M. O’C. Drury, ‘Conversations with Wittgenstein’, in Ludwig Wittgenstein, edited by Rush Rhees (Oxford, 1981), p. 140.

  22. Anthony Storr, ‘Isaac Newton’, British Medical Journal (21–28 December 1985), 291, pp. 1779–84.

  23. Richard S. Westfall, ‘Short-writing and the State of Newton’s Conscience, 1662’, Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 18 (1963), p. 13.

  24. J. M. Keynes, ‘Newton the Man’, in G. Keynes (ed.), Essays in Biography (London, 1951), p. 311.

  25. S. Brodetsky, Sir Isaac Newton (London, 1972), pp. 69, 89.

  CHAPTER 11

  1. Bernard Berenson, The Italian Painters of the Renaissance (London, 1959), p. 201.

  2. Joseph Kerman, The Beethoven Quartets (Oxford, 1967), p. 12.

  3. Ibid., p. 184.

  4. Martin Cooper, Beethoven: The Last Decade (London, 1970), p. 11.

  5. Joseph Kerman, op. cit., p. 322.

  6. J. W. N. Sullivan, Betthoven (London, 1927), p. 225.

  7. Wilfrid Meilers, Beethoven and the Voice of God (London, 1983), p. 402.

  8. Maynard Solomon, Beethoven (London, 1978), p. 325.

  9. Humphrey Searle, The Music of Liszt (New York, 1966), p. 108.

  10. Malcolm Boyd, Bach (London, 1983), p. 208.

  11. Mosco Carner, ‘Richard Strauss’s Last Years’, in The New Oxford History of Music, X, edited by Martin Cooper (Oxford, 1974), p. 325.

  12. William Murdoch, Brahms (London, 1933), p. 155.

  13. Denis Arnold, ‘Brahms’, in The New Oxford Companion to Music (Oxford, 1983), p. 254.

  14. J. A. Fuller Maitland, ‘Brahms’, in Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5 volumes, third edition, edited by H. C. Colles, I, p. 452.

  15. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Case of Wagner, translated by Walter Kaufmann (New York, 1967), p. 187.

  16. Peter Latham, Brahms (London, 1966), p. 87.

  17. Quoted in George R. Marek, Richard Strauss (London, 1967), p. 323.

  18. Henry James, The Ambassadors, 2 Volumes (linden, 1923), I, p. 190.

  19. Leon Edel, The Life of Henry James, 2 volumes (Harmondsworth, 1977), II, pp. 333–4.

  20. Ralf Norrman, The Insecure World of Henry James’s Fiction (London, 1982), p. 138.

  21. The Notebook of Henry James, edited by F. O. Matthicssen and Kenneth B. Murdock (Chicago, 1981), pp. 150–51.

  22. Henry James, ‘The Beast in the Jungle’, in The Altar of the Dead (London, 1922), p. 123.

  23. Ibid., p. 114.

  24. Quoted in Leon Edel, op. cit., II, p. 694.

  25. Ibid., p. 538.

  CHAPTER 12

  1. Plato, The Symposium, translated by W. Hamilton (Harmondsworth, 1951), p. 64.

  2. Sigmund Freud, On the Universal Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of Lave, Standard Edition, edited by James Strachey, 24 volumes, XI (London, 1957), pp. 188–9.

  3. Marghanita Laski, Ecstasy (London, 1961), p. 148.

  4. Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents, Standard Edition, edited by James Strachey, 24 volumes, XXI (London, 1961), p. 65.

  5. Ibid., p. 66.

  6. Marghanita Laski, op. cit., p. 206.

  7. Bertrand Russell, The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, 3 volumes (London, 1967–9), I, p. 36.

  8. C. P. Snow, The Search (London, 1934), pp. 126–7.

  9. C. G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (London, 1963), p. 191.

  10. C. G. Jung, ‘The Development of Personality’, Collected Works, XVII (London, 1954), p. 171.

  11. C. G. Jung, ‘Psychotherapists or the Clergy’, in Psychology and Religion: Collected Works, XI (London, 1958), p. 334.

  12. Charles Rycroft, ‘Introduction: Causes and Meaning’, in Psychoanalysis Observed (London, 1966), p. 22.

  13. C.G.Jung, ‘The Aims of Psychotherapy’, in The Practice of Psychotherapy. Collected Works, XVI (London, 1954), p. 41.

  14. C.G.Jung, ‘Commentary on “The Secret of the Golden Flower”’, in Alchemical Stuthes: Collected Works, XIII (London, 1967), p. 46.

  15. Ibid., p. 45.

  16. C.G.Jung, Psychology and Religion: Collected Works, XI (London, 1958), pp. 81–2.

  17. C.G. Jung, ‘Commentary on “The Secret of the Golden Flower”’, op. cit., pp. 47–8.

  18. William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience (London, 1903), p. 289.

  19. Ibid., p. 381.

  20. Ibid., p. 175.

  21. C. G.Jung, The Transcendent Function: Collected Works, VIII (London, 1969),p. 73.

  22. W. M. Thackeray, Roundabout Papers, The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray with Biographical Introductions by his daughter, Anne Ritchie (London, 1903), XII, pp. 374–5.

  23. J. W. Cross, George Eliot’s Life as related in her Letters and Journals (Edinburgh and London, 1885), III, pp. 421–5.

  24. Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, translated by R.J. Hollingdale (Harmondsworth, 1979), p. 48.

  25. Abraham Maslow, The Farther Reaches of Human Nature (Harmondsworth, 1973), p. 59.

  26. Ibid., pp. 63–4.

  27. Ibid., p. 67.

  28. William Wordsworth, The Prelude: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, introduced by John Morley (London, 1950), p. 261.

  Epigraphs

  INTRODUCTION

  Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, edited by J. B.

  Bury, 7 volumes. (London, 1898), V, p. 337.

  CHAPTERS

  John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 8, line 364.

  Michel De Montaigne, Of Solitude, from The Essays of Montaigne, translated by E. J. Trechmann (New York, 1946), p. 205.

  Charles de Gaulle, Mémoires de Guerre, Vol. III (Paris, 1959), p. 288.

  Francis Bacon, De Dignitote et Augmentis Scienliarum (ed. 1640, translated by Gilbert Watts), vii, 37.

  Samuel Johnson, Boswell’s Life of Johnson, edited by G. Birkbeck Hill, 6 volumes. (Oxford, 1887), III, p. 341.

  Thomas De Quincey, The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, edited by David Masson, 14 volumes. (Edinburgh, 1889–1890), p. 235.

  Carl G. Jung, The Psychology of the Unconscious, in The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, 20 volumes. (London, 1953–79), VII, p. 58.

  Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, stanza 32, lines 684–5, in Leaves of Grass, edited by Emory Holloway (London, 1947), p. 52.

  Graham Greene, Ways of Escape (Harmondsworth, 1981), p. 211. Edward Thomas, quoted in Edward Thomas, by R. George Thomas (Oxford, 1985), p. 162.

  Quoted in Ben-Ami Scharfstein, The Philosophers (Oxford, 1980), p. 89. [Refers to L. Wittgenstein, Vermischte Bemerkungen (Oxford, 1978), p. 11 (1929).]

  Alex Aronson, Music and the Novel (New Jersey, 1980), p. xiii.

  William Wordsworth, The Prelude, from The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, introduced by John Morley (London, 1950), p. 239.

  Index

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  Abbs, Peter 77, 79–80

  Aberbach, David 133, 140

  At the Handles of Lock, Loss and Separation in Bialik and Wordsworth, 133

  abstraction, 88–9, 104, 169

  Adler, Alfred 86–7, 89

  aggression, 7, 10, 17, 27, 82, 97, 100,1 48

  Alexander, Franz 150

  aloneness, vii, xii

  capacity for, 16–29, 62, 69–71, 93, 201

  in childhood, 106–7

  in the presence of others, 19–22, 26, 94

  fear of, 18

  need for, 93,95

  wish for, 18

  Andersen, Hendrik 180

  Andreasen Nancy C., 142

  animals, 10–11, 16, 62–4, 66, 109–12, 116, 119

&n
bsp; Aristophanes, 185–6

  Aristotle, 160

  Arnold, Denis, 177

  Aronson, Alex 168

  art, artists, vii, x, 68, 75–80, 107, 123, 147, 151–2, 160, 169, 180

  attachment, ix, 8–15, 16, 18–21, 69–70, 83, 95, 107, 122, 127, 136

  Auden, Wystan H. 150

  Augustine, St. 80

  Austen, Lady 137

  autobiography, 75, 78, 80–1, 85

  autonomy, 48–9, 155, 160, 164, 166

  avoidance behaviour, (see ‘infant’)

  Bacon, Francis 42

  Bach, Johann Sebastian 175, 177–8

  Balestier, Carrie 114

  Balzac, Honoré de 98

  Bartók, Bela 174

  Bauer, Felice 102, 104

  Bazin, Germain 75–6

  Beethoven, Ludwig van 49, 52, 159, 170–4, 180

  ‘behavioral disorganization’ 99–191, 146, 149, 164

  behaviour, animal 62–3

  Bennet, Glin

  Beyond Endurance, 40

  bereavement, 12, 29–31, 115, 123–44

  Berenson, Bernard 17, 169

  Berkeley, George 160

  Berlin, Sir Isaiah 160

  Berryman, John 138

  Bettelheim, Bruno 49, 81, 127

  Bialik, Chaim 140

  Birtchnell, John A. 126

  blindness, 51

  Boethius.

  ‘the Consoltion of Philosophy, 57, 141

  Bone, Dr. Edith

  Seven Years Solitary, 48

  Bowlby,John 8–11, 15, 18, 21, 74, 82, 98, 127

  Attachment and Loss, 8–10, 15

  Boyd, Malcolm 175

  Brahms, Johannes 25, 176–8

  brainwashing, 50

  Breuer, Josef 4

  Brink, Andrew 133, 140–141

  Creativity as Repair, Loss and Symbolic Repair, 133

  Brod, Max 101

  Brodetsky, S. 165

  Brown, George 125–6, 128, 137

  Buddha, The 34

  Bunyan, John 57–58

  Grace Abounding, The Pilgrim’s Progress, 58

  Burckhardt, Jacob 77

  Bumey, Chistopher

  Solitary Confinement, 48

  Burton, Robert

  The Anatomy of Melancholy, 130

  Byrd, Admiral R. 35–38, 51, 188

  Byron, George Gordon, Lord 139

  Canter, A. 142

  Carpenter, Humphrey 108, 111–2

  Secret Gardens, 108

  Carrington, Charles 113–4

  Catherine of Siena, St. 34

  Cecil, David

  The Stricken Deer. 133

  ‘chiastic inversion’, 181–2

  Chopin, Fryderyk 170

  Cimabue, 160

  Clare, John 132, 142

  Cohen, Stanley and Taylor, Laurie

  Psychological Survival 56

  coherence, 81, 84, 92, 145–167, 172

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor x, 138

  Collins, William 138

  competence, 126, 128

  compliance, 7, 20, 47, 94–7, 100

  concentration camps, 48–49, 153

  confinement, solitary 42–49, 55, 58, 60, 110, 153

  convergers, 89–92, 146

  Cooper, Martin 171–2, 175

  Cowper, William 133–8

  Task, The 137

  Crane, Hart 142

  creative abilities 104

  achievements, 74, 107

  activities, 84

  apperception, 71, 123

  artists, 53, 107

  endeavour xi

  imagination 62, 67, 107, 123

  interests, 73

  person, people, vii–xii, 25–6, 66, 75

  phantasy, 90

  potential, 91, 123

  powers, 143

  process, 25, 198–200

  production, 57

  pursuits, xii

  talent, vii–viii

  task, 50

  creativity, 52, 81, 199–202

  as compensation, 123

  as coping mechanism, 127–9, 131, 143

  as repair, 123, 129, 143, 152

  as response to loss, 123, 128–9, 132–4, 144

  as therapy, 123, 129

  Curchod, Suzanne xi

  Day–Lewis, Cecil 139

  deafness, 51–53, 170

  death, 39–40, 61, 66, 76, 84, 113, 121, 124–30, 134–5, 137, 139, 153, 169

  de Gaulle, Charles 29

  De Quincey, Thomas, 73, 155

  Dement, William C. 24

  dependence, 11, 127, 136, 149–50

  depression, depressive, 46, 54,93, 95–8, 112, 120–1, 123–145, 194

  de Sade, Marquis 59–60

  Descartes, René vii, 160

  discontent, 63–4

  ‘disintegration anxiety’, 149, 164

  divergere, 89–92, 98

  Donaldson, Frances 117–8

  Donne, John 133–4, 138

  Dorati, Antal 49

  Dostoevsky, F.M. 58–9

  dramatists, 90–2, 98, 145, 182

  dreams, day-dreams, 24–7, 50, 56, 62, 64, 65, 72, 77, 85, 108, 192

  Durkheim, Emile 79

  Dymant, Dora 103

  Eagle, Morris, N. 152–3

  Interests as Object Relations, 153

  ecstasy,

  and being in love, 186–7

  and death, 39–40

  and work, 189

  religious, 135

  union with Nature 17–18

  Edel, Leon 180,182,184

  Einstein, Albert 67, 159,188

  Elgar, Edward 151

  Eliot, George 198

  empathy, 88, 104, 108, 150, 169

  environment, 2, 62–4

  Erikson, Erik 165

  ethology, 9, 15

  extravert, extraversion 85, 87–93, 98, 145–6

  Faibairn, W. Ronald D. 8, 150

  false self, 20, 94–5

  fantasy, see phantasy

  Firth, Raymond 76

  Frege, Gottlob 161

  Freud, Sigmund viii, x, 2–8, 37–40, 64–8, 75, 85–7, 97, 108, 121, 152, 169, 186–192

  Civilisation and Its Discontents, 37

  Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming, 64

  Formulations on the Two Principles of Mental Functioning, 68

  Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Anlysis, 5

  Mourning and Melancholia, 97

  The Freud-Jung Letters, 191

  The Future of an Illusion, 37

  Furtwangler, Wilhelm 179

  Galileo Galilei, 199

  Gardner, Howard 90–2, 145–6, 182

  Gellner, Ernest 1–2, 13

  genius vii–viii, x, 53, 161, 169–70, 198

  Gibbon, Edward vii–x, 15, 72

  The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ix

  Giotto, 160

  God, 2, 82–3, 189, 192, 195–6

  Goebbels, Joseph P. 179

  Goethe,Johann Wolfgangv on 85

  Gosse, Edmund 17

  Goya y Lucientes, Francisco 53, 67

  Greece,

  mourning rituals 30

  Greene, Graham 123, 129

  Grey, Anthony 60–1

  Hallam, Arthur 129–30, 133

  hallucination, 24, 40, 46, 50, 54, 65–6, 153

  harmony, 17, 36, 132, 188

  Harris, Tirril 125–6, 128, 137

  Haydn, Joseph 170

  Heller, Erich 103

  Hess, Rudolf 60

  Hindemith, Paul 179

  Hinkle, Lawrence E. 45–7

  Hitler, Adolf 60, 179

  Mein Kampf, 60

  homosexuality, 112, 116, 130, 138, 163

  Hopkins, Gerard Manley 142

  Hudson, Liam 89, 92, 146

  Hume, David 160

  Huxley, Aldous 201

  identity; xii, 20, 35, 73, 87, 110, 147–8, 201

  imagination, 15, 19, 62–72, 75, 106–23, 132, 187, 197

  ‘active imagination’ 194, 198

  impersonal, the xi,
70–1, 75, 176, 178, 201

  individuality, individual, xii, 2–4, 8–10, 13, 18–21, 26–8, 66, 72, 73–85, 87, 110, 169, 191–2

  individuation, 41, 80, 193, 196, 198–200

  infant,

  attachment behaviour 9, 6, 19, 69–70, 95

  avoidance behaviour 95, 98–101, 104, 146

  awareness of separate identity, 148

  dependence on care, 168

  depressive position, 100

  insecure attachment 19, 95, 127

  interaction with mother, 98–100, 148, 151

  interaction with peers 16–17

  paranoid-schizoid position 100, 102

  placation, 95, 97

  sexual development 3

  treatment of, 10

  integration, xii, 22–23, 28, 35, 193, 197

  intelligence, 26–7, 63, 91, 155

  interests, x–xii, 73–4, 84, 152–3, 201

  interrogation, 23, 44–8, 54–5, 148

  introvert, introversion 85, 87–93, 98, 104, 14–67, 161, 163

  isolation, xii, 10, 13, 17, 19, 43–7, 51, 53, 84, 106–22, 154

  as punishment, 43–48

  as therapy, 33

  James, Henry 179–184

  The Ambassadors, 179–81, 184

  The Beast in the Jungle, 182–4

  The Golden Bowl, 179, 182, 184

  The Sacred Fount, 181–2, 184

  The Wings of the Deve, 179, 184

  James, William

  Varieties of Religious Experience, The 37–8, 195–7

  Jamison, Kay R. 142

  Jarrell, Randall 142

  Jesensll, Milena 103–4

  Jesus, 34, 135

  Jews,

  mourning rituals, 31

  slaughter of, 101

  Johnson, Samuel 62–4

  The History of Rassetm. 63

  Jung,CG. 2, 40–1, 75, 85–7, 129, 146, 150, 169, 190–200

  Psychologies! Types, 85, 88

  The Psychology of the Unconscious, 191

  The Freud-Jung Letters, 191

  Kafka, Franz 98, 101–4, 145–6, 149, 153

  Kant, Immanuel vii, 155–15 8, 160, 166

  Keats, John 40, 133, 139

  Kekulé, F. A. von 67, 72

  Kepler, Johannes 199

  Kerman, Joseph, 170–2

  Kierkegaard, Soren vii

 

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