The Cognitive Insight and Jungian Philosophy After the Post-Colonial Era in American Writer Ernest Hemingway
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
ial Scien oc ce S s d J n o u a r s n t a r l Sankar, Arts Social Sci J 2016, 7:1 A Arts and Social Sciences Journal DOI: 10.4172/2151-6200.1000156 ISSN: 2151-6200 Review Article Open Access The Cognitive Insight and Jungian Philosophy after the Post-colonial Era in American Writer Ernest Hemingway Sankar G* Department of English, SVS College of Engineering, Ciombatore, Tamil Nadu, India *Corresponding author: Sankar G, Department of English, SVS College of Engineering, Ciombatore, Tamil Nadu, India, Tel: +919578153435; E-mail: [email protected] Received date: January 04, 2016; Accepted date: January 27, 2016; Published date: January 30, 2016 Copyright: © 2016 Sankar G. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Abstract This paper has focused the demonstration experience with his health problems, influence on their life and writing. Hemingway’s weakening physical condition and increasing severe mental problems that were bipolar disorder, alcohol dependence, traumatic brain injury, and probable border line and narcissistic personality traits considerably reduced his fictional creation in the final years of his lifetime. He spent more than a decade of his later career, writing about illness while he struggled with tuberculosis, insomnia, alcoholism and heart disease as well as the mental illness of his wife Zelda with studying of Fitzgerald's analysis of his own life, from his stories, we are able to bring together the ineffaceable connection between personal suffering and the need for expression, between illness and identity, between writing and healing. As a result, his donations to the canon of illness literature are noteworthy and- as is characteristic of his career-credit for these contributions is overdue. Keywords: Ernest Hemingway; American; Psychology; Depression; researcher studied critical works that analyses and reflect the thematic, Health sciences philosophical, social, cultural and intellectual preoccupations that were revealed in Hemingway and Fitzgerald’s life and works. Furthermore, Introduction in this research all of materials has been used such as digital library books, academic journal articles about Ernest Hemingway and Samuel This paper is about the greatest writers of the world whose heritages Beckett’s life and works and found background information on them in have their own specific role in the context of the world literature. order to establish unbroken connection between their illnesses and Ernest Miller Hemingway occupied a prominent place in the annals of literary heritage. In accomplishing this study, intrinsic approach and American Literary history because of his revolutionary role in the also apply descriptive analytical methods are used which combine with arena of twentieth century American fiction but both of them had interpretation. health problems that it can be seen their reflection on the writers life and works. Discussion Mood-creativity research reveals that people are most creative when Ernest Hemingway was a bitter and somehow harsh man who they are in a positive mood [1] and that mental illnesses such as tortured his characters because he was angry that he could never find depression or schizophrenia actually decrease creativity [2]. People true love, or that things were not going the way he would have liked who have worked in the field of arts throughout the history have had them to go in his life. It is also a fact that Hemingway was diagnosed to problems with poverty, persecution, social alienation, psychological have a rare disease, Hemochromatosis, which basically it leaves one trauma, substance abuse, high stress [3] and other such environmental with not enough iron in his blood, but lacks the symptoms that factors which are related with developing and possibly causing mental hemophilia is known for. This left him severely bipolar. The depressing illness. It is thus likely that when creativity itself is associated with style of his writing may have been contributed to that fact as well. positive moods, happiness, and mental health, pursuing a career in the Besides, it should be stated that Hemingway’s philosophy of life is as arts may bring problems with stressful environment and income [4]. much helpful to the contemporaries as it was during his lifetime. Used Also it can be mentioned physical problems such as heart attack, liver in his speech, repetition not only made it easy for the audience to damage, and blood pressure is other subject that can decrease follow what the speaker was saying, but also gave a strong rhythmic creativity. quality to the speech and made it more memorable. Methodology On Hemingway’s life a logical looking for a psychiatric perspective is with his family of origin. Hemingway wrote, in the memoir A As a first step, the researcher read books and papers that present the Moveable Feast, “Families have many ways of being dangerous” [5], major issues and concerned of in theme of illnesses and creativity. In and his family was dangerous to him in different ways, not the least of the second step, the researcher read biographical work on Ernest that was the genetic heritage they gave to him. Ernest's father, a Hemingway life to get a clear picture of their background, their physician, suffered from unpredictable and dramatic mood swings development as writers and their response to the age that they lived in. characterized by episodes of depression and irritability [6]. The The researcher, in the third step, did an exhaustive reading of Hemingway children complained of the stress their father's nervous Hemingway major short stories and novels. As the last step the condition placed on them, and Hemingway required repeated retreats Arts Social Sci J Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 1000156 ISSN:2151-6200 ASSJ an open access journal Citation: Sankar G (2016) The Cognitive Insight and Jungian Philosophy after the Post-colonial Era in American Writer Ernest Hemingway. Arts Social Sci J 7: 156. doi:10.4172/2151-6200.1000156 Page 2 of 5 away from the family for rest cures [7]. In December of 1928, in an could- not stop. In the late 1940s he was overweight, his blood pressure episode of depression, feeling burdened by financial concerns and with was high, he began to hear noises in his head, and he had strong signs diabetes and angina threatening his physical health. Hemingway took of cirrhosis of the liver. His illiteracy of the threats of alcohol was his life with a gunshot to the head [8]. revealed when he taught his son Patrick to drink which caused in life problems with alcohol for him. The similar occurred with his another Ernest’s mother, Grace Hemingway, suffered from episodes of son, Gregory, who was a drug addicted and transvestite-he died at the insomnia, headaches, and nerves. Similar conditions have been age of 69 in a women’s jail in Florida. identified in Grace's brother, Leicester, and Clarence's brother, Alfred [6]. “Ernest, one of six siblings, was preceded in birth by his sister Hemingway’s weakening physical condition and increasing severe Marcelline and followed by Ursula, Madelaine, Carol, and his brother, mental problems considerably reduced his fictional creation in the final Leicester” [9]. “Ursula and Leicester both died by suicide. Marcelline years of his lifetime. The last tension was when the Cuban rule of suffered from periods of depression, and though her death in 1963 was revolutionist Fidel Castro enforced Hemingway to departure Finca Vig. ruled due to natural causes, the family suspected suicide” [6]. So, it can He had two airplane crashed. They were when Hemingway made up be said the Hemingway family has a long history of health problems, his mind to use his travel bug, going to Europe to understand some and suicide that preceded Ernest's birth, claimed at least three of the bullfights in Spain and then to Africa in the summer for one more six siblings in his generation, and has continued on through two safari with his wife Mary. They wounds were insignificant; however further generations. Hemingway himself warrants a closer look. some of Mary’s ribs were damaged. Afterwards while they were During the 1924 episode, Hemingway rapidly produced seven short crossing the Lake Victoria by boat, they had a new flight in a de stories. In 1934, he experienced another immense accession of energy, Haviland Rapide. Heading to Uganda the airplane scarcely come down which he described as juice and found to be bad as a disease [10]. Also the earth earlier hurtling and catching fire. Finding the door jammed, the essence of Hemingway’s thoughts was that in the confused and Hemingway used his head as a battering ram, butted the door twice disordered world left after the Great War it is just within man’s power and got out. He enjoyed being a classic example of superman to realize his moral purpose which must be forged and subsequently pragmatism, but it nearly killed him. The smash had wounded protected in the citadel of the soul. The true hero accepted Hemingway more than most would recognize. In this accident responsibility for himself in a world where notions of ultimate truth Hemingway’s liver, spleen and right kidney were ruptured, his right and certainty had all but vanished, and with heartfelt vigor and arm and shoulder were disrupted, two discs of his backbone were determination he had to wring meaning out of a world devoiced of any broken, his head was fractured, his hearing and vision were damaged, values outside of him. his head, arms, and face were seared by the fires of the aircraft, and his Nobody can deny the fact that Hemingway’s health problems had a muscle was paralyzed by compressed spinal column on the iliac nerve.