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Psychological Phenomena in Art Creativity on the Example of Lewis Carroll's Works
Authors: Elena A. Volodarskaya, Roman V. Kozyakov
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The article analyses the reflection of psychological phenomena in the works of English writer Lewis Carroll. Such books as "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass" are considered. The conclusion about the description of manifestation of syndromes of violation of subject perception of remote objects, features of human memory and the speech, formation of temporary prospect of the personality is drawn. It is specified educational and psychotherapeutic function of creativity of L. Carroll.
The problem of psychological phenomena in art excited and concerned researchers, Psychologists point to the ability of writers to notice the individual and psychological qualities of their heroes for the full build of the character, describing his inner world. Writers describe many psychological phenomena long before they enter the field of view of professional psychologists. Here are the details of the works of the English writer Lewis Carroll. One of the highest creative achievements are his books "Alice in Wonderland" and "Alice in Wonderland. There are many versions of for what reasons Carroll has written the most known work. In the biography of Lewis said that since the childhood, the boy suffered from stuttering, and in later years, he started on top of a strong migraine and he began to take opium, allegedly in order to avoid unbearable suffering and to suppress, at least temporarily, the problem with the stuttering. Others say that such a detailed description of the phenomenon, Carroll gave his own illness. He suffered from migraine, which could cause this syndrome.
The main idea given works about Alice is that during the adventures, Alice drinks a potion then she decreases to very small sizes, and having eaten pie, on the contrary, becomes big. Owing to what her perception of reality is broken. She perceives world around distorted – she perceives big objects as small and small – as big. World of Carroll's works is replete with characters that change shape. According to some scientists, the writer well managed to transfer perception and feeling by the person of objects in a dream. It can speak the fact that the brain in a dream processes information, connecting together different events, building a complete picture.
The nature of the human speech is also mentioned in work. The speech is one of mental informative processes along with memory, feeling, representation, perception, imagination, attention and thinking. In the work "Through the Looking-Glass" there was an unusual character, the mention of whom causes associations with something round and volume, similar to egg, but with human extremities. The similar image is connected with a combination of sounds of a name of this hero who promotes formation of such representation.
Further Alice to meet on the mysterious travel the White Queen with which very long conducts conversations. It helps to see one more phenomenon – interrelation of perception of the past and future. Feature of the new character on Alice's the way are the prediction of the future and reflection for what memory is and what features at her. Perceptions are inextricably linked past, present and future, helping to build a unified timeline of human life. Memory the right person not only to remember past events and experiences, but also the huge role it plays for the design of the future. In particular, people with damage to the part of the brain responsible for memory, cannot imagine events in the future. Retained the ability to present only some items without the ability to put them into a coherent picture. The white Queen, from the works talks about the importance of thinking about the impossible, that is, on imagination and fantasy, develop creativity, the ability to think outside the box.
Psychological researches of art creativity are directed to the analysis of literary methods of creation of an image of characters, detection of features of perception of literary heroes, mechanisms of formation of interest and empathy to a plot from the reader. Communication of the writer and reader sets for the writer drawing attention tasks to the psychological problems of the heroes allowing to understand better not only their characters, but also to transfer their experience to own life of the reader.
L. Carroll in the works raises the questions of mental disorders of the personality analyzed in psychological and psychiatric practice. Works about Alice have the big psychotherapeutic force as, describing phenomenology of violations of perception of fictional heroes, educate, draw attention to these problems, reduce fears of their discussion, and promote prevention and treatment.
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