Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Schubert and Mozart

Meaninful beauty and meaningless beauty. So what if art is meaningless?
Nothing wrong with it.
It could be said that Mozart, and all art alike, has the value of beauty in itself. Art from a different world, self contained, no regard for anything, least of all anything human.
Enter Haendel and Mendelsohn in the same league. Pure wonder, playfulness, "it-could-have-not-been-otherwise" logic. It could have been made by anyone, given genius.
Enter Schubert the man. Now its all about human life, metaphoric armony, experience, feelings, stories of the soul, love and death hidded somewhere in the melody. First the man, then the song. "Try-to-find-yourself" along the measures. Universally human, it has also the value of beauty.

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Biochemistry in debt

It is a matter of discussion as to whether Freud explained human conduct using a particular culture reference. That culture reference is Victorian society and sexual repression.
Some argue that in today’s society, Freud would have explained his findings using a different narcissism as a source of abnormal behaviour.
Yet the mechanism remains intact: a frustrating gap between reality and desire sets all sorts of psychic disorders. Gaps are unconsciously registered in our minds.

Psychoanalysis is about 100 years old. Still a theory, it could be compared to the Theory of Relativity, although the latter was born from mathematics and more and more experiments have helped testing it right.

Psychoanalysis might have to wait long to be considered real science. Its biochemical basis remain more elusive than evidence to measure relativity. After all, it is about the brain.

Question: Which are the evolutionary basis of the subconscious mind?

Thursday, May 11, 2006

The inner look

That the cause of human conduct lies on the subconscious self seems to be a popular belief. What is in store in your subconsciousness?
Probably, a multivariable input from personal experience and social influence.
Oughtn't everyone know how this equation is made of?
Which is the outcome of learning what drives you most of the time?
Which is the mechanism by which, knowing the inner causes, set you free?

Monday, May 08, 2006

The shalow evolution

Subtle changes on our face can make a comparative larger impact on others. We are exquisitively keen on physical variables such as the size of a nose, lips, colour of skin and a person's height. For instance, one or two centimeters matter in human culture.
However, other features meaningful for better and lasting relationships are kept hidden from immediate assessment.
Someone's inner truth requiere time and study to be acknowledged.
Why so?
Why have we developed such a sensitive competence to recognise a face in a million, yet we hardly know how to evaluate other people's mind?
Why can we recognise ourselves in a photograph, yet we hardly know ourselves?