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"A novelist conversation with the abyss"
Charles Ferdinand Ramuz🥸
French-speaking Swiss (Laussane) writer 1878-1947 | Most prominent Swiss novelist
😞R MCA stroke @ age 65
🥸He called it "The adventure."
🧐Risks: smoker 2/
😍Igor Stravinsky (one of the most influential composers of the 20th century) + Ramuz -> created the famous musical play L' Historie du Soldat (1918):
"You have no right to share what you are and what you were."⤵️

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1/ Salvador Dalí's delirium as science
1904-1989 | Spanish surrealist | Explorer of the (erotic) subconscious through his "paranoiac-critical" method
🦋🦋🦋 Neurology is everywhere 2/"Critical paranoia."
🤓Another way to perceive reality. Revealing the "irrational knowledge."
🤓"My whole ambition in the pictorial domain is to materialize the images of my concrete irrationality with the most imperialist fury of precision" Dalí

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🤔I kept thinking about Klüver-Busy after @RyanBPetersonMD fantastic case (Post-herpes encephalitis NMDA, check it out!)
🧐How in the world did they get to describe this syndrome!? Well, it's fascinating. 2/
🤓A Cactus (mescaline), a monkey named "Aurora", Heinrich Klüver and a neurosurgeon (Bucy)
✅Klüver: experimental psychologist, helped shape the field (neuroscience). He had an interest in Peyote and mescaline induced hallucinations (eidetic visual phenomena)