Word: morbidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Surrealism suited his extraordinary technical facility as a draughtsman, his morbid nature. Salvador Dali, with exquisite drawing and brilliant color, began to paint his nightmares on pieces of panel hardly bigger than postcards. He not only made surrealist paintings, he wrote surrealist poems, helped produce the first two surrealist films: Le Chien Andalou and L'Age d'Or. The first had a great deal to do with pianos filled with carcasses of dead donkeys. In the latter the great seduction scene to which the whole film rises is symbolized by a view of a bedroom window through which...
...when Sassoon describes the mental hospital, where the shell-shocked patients were cheerful and normal curing the days. But at night "they lost control and the hospital became sepulchral and oppressive with saturations of War experience. . . . One became conscious that the place was full of men whose slumbers were morbid and terrifying- men muttering uneasily or suddenly crying out in their sleep. Around me was that underworld of dreams haunted by submerged memories of warfare and its intolerable shocks and self-lacerating failures to achieve the impossible. By daylight each mind was a sort of aquarium for the psychopath...
...suspended, shipped on a freighter, worked on newspapers, married the beautiful, domineering only daughter of a well-to-do family. With her he went to Paris, lived a life of futile anxiety until, under the pressure of conflicts and suspicions that are not clearly described, he grew increasingly morbid, tormented his wife with his nervousness. Meanwhile his mother had died, his talented brother had gone through a cycle of bitter conflicts and his father, old Dr. Chastain, had prospered in Wilmington without making an adjustment with his environment. Charles returned to the U. S., recovered his sanity when...
...meditation made sick by fear." Confronted by situations that we do not know how to face, or do not want to face, our concepts of the kind of action possible for us are limited by patterns of thought formed in childhood by fears of consequence or opinion, by a morbid love for our own unhappiness, by distorted evaluations of the situation based on ingrown prejudice rather than fact. We thereupon begin to worry and "the moment a man begins to worry he imperils his mind." The symptoms are plain. "There is no isolation so poignant as that which worry brings...
Moody disconsolate, unnerved at Gardner's courtship, Selma thought of marriage as a trap set particularly for her, was sometimes swept off her feet by Gardner s ardor and exasperated by his arrogance At last he told her: "You mistake a morbid imagination ... for intellect...