diagnosis liver disease, bisexuality, and other analytical pursuits

[Valery Belyanin]

Dear all
I have been following the discussion with great interest. It is the
discussion of the year!
And I want to add my five cents.
http://www.textology.ru/public/pushkin.html
http://www.mospsy.ru/phorum/read.php?f=2&i=2381&t=2381
(though this is all in Russian).

Yours truly, Валерий Белянин / Valery Belyanin,
Psycholinguistic forum: http://www.mospsy.ru/phorum/list.php?f=2


On 3/24/06, nataliek at ualberta.ca <nataliek at ualberta.ca> wrote:
>
> Now I would like to add my two cents.  There have been very interesting
> analyses written not only of the mental makeup of the characters in
> literature and art, but also of the physical diseases that might, or
> might not, plague them.  I remember an article in Science, I believe,
> that tried to diagnose the ailments that might be afflicting a figure
> in a painting.  I unfortunately don't remember which painting.  Why is
> this interesting and important?  Figures in literature and in art shape
> our imagination.  They are, or become, iconic.  So seeing what diseases
> of the body or of the mind capture our imagination tells us something
> about ourselves.
>
> Natalie Kononenko Kule Chair of Ukrainian Ethnography
> University of Alberta Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
> 200 Arts Building Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E6
> Phone: 780-492-6810 Web: http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/uvp/
>

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