Schizothyma
Schizothym is an outdated cultural-scientific term that comes from differential and personality psychology . It denotes the opposite of cyclothyma.
Concept history
As schizothymic designated Ernst Kretschmer normal temperament leptosome that to "own ideas and creative thoughts" in characterized by demarcation from the outside world, indulging in too exclusively, and adherence to rigid principles.
Kretschmer used, among other things, " autobiographical and literary statements by several of his schizoid and schizothyma certain poets as evidence of characteristic mental experiences of the individual types , which in turn gave literary texts scientific knowledge ." So he expands on what originally came from differential and personality psychology cultural-scientific term from: The schizothyma "is defined by the form : it tends towards the 'elegant classicism ' ... As typically schizothyma, Kretschmer understood stylization , cubist tendencies, pathos ..." "The whole age seemed to him ... as schizothyma." In his Book chapter To the Borrominesque worldview he connected z. B. the Cartesian worldview in Francesco Borromini's architecture with its schizothymer “endangerment”, an idea that Hans Sedlmayr also pointed to.
“The cyclothymic politicians are daredevils, organizers or mediator politicians, their strength is the ' hypermannic initial effect ', not the systematic expansion, which is then confronted as schizothyma by pure idealists and moralists, despots, fanatics and cold calculators. Kretschmer names Calvin or Friedrich the Great here . He could also have remembered Kierkegaard with his inner brooding, his isolating melancholy, which made it impossible for him to open up to others, in which the hunch always seemed more terrible than the fact. The acedia of the monastery inmates was certainly often schizothymic. ... "
Individual evidence
- ↑ The term “schizothym” on the “cognitive network for students and interested parties” of the University of Vienna .
- ↑ Gisela Brude-Firnau : On the psychopathology of the Pasenows . In: Austriaca . No. 55 , 2003, Ernst Kretschmer's typological triad, p. 55 .
- ^ A b c Daniela Bohde : Art history as physiognomic science: Critique of a figure of thought from the 1920s to 1940s . In: Writings on modern art historiography . tape 3 . Akademie Verlag , 2012, ISBN 3-05-005558-8 , pp. 108-113, 184 .
- ↑ Herman Nohl : Character and Fate: an educational study of the human being . G. Schulte-Bulmke, Frankfurt am Main 1947, ISBN 3-465-01924-5 , p. 120 .