Was William Blake schizophrenic?

Yes, probably

No, probably

Maybe, probably

Mayhaps

>>9560016
Yes. His art has that vibe of someone who discerns the horror under ordinary images. He's very good at expressing the terror in merely existing.

>>9560016
I don't know, probably

Probacirclejerkly.

Most great artists would be diagnosed with some serious mental illness.
Carl Jung claimed Joyce was schizophrenic like his daughter (who was his patient).

Schizofrenia is a spook.

>>9560958
Jung was a brilliant guy but schizophrenia was barely understood back then.

>>9560967
Mental illness is a spook.

Now, we have a wide range of people who act in different behaviors. Some act very similar in behavior and the behavior they act is negative to their well being and the well being of society. We will categorize them and treat them by category so as to help with their mental health and the health of society.

>>9560016
He had a bicameral mind, so yes.

why do you draw that conclusion? do you even know what schizophrenia is?

(implying this isnt your remedial english high school assignment)

>>9561001
t. somebody who has never met somebody with schizophrenia

its a thought disorder, how can you say that all the symptoms are behavioural when they might be thought blocking or hearing voices, which they tell nobody about?

>>9561001
go to bed Foucault, you're drunk

>>9561616
>>9561635
I was making a point that the concept of mental illness makes sense, and calling it a spook is being retarded.

Blake was ahead of his time throwing hipster drawings in his sketchbook despite it being the 1800s and neither weed nor boutique coffee shops existing

>>9561664
>incredibly detailed and anatomically well-done line drawing of mythological figures
>quotes from the Bible, pieces of Hebrew, bits of poetry and Kabalistic mysticism arranged around it
>"Hipster drawing"

Wasn't Blake quite conservative later in life? I know he abandoned unconventional sexual practices.

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>>9560016
Nah, just a Gnostic/occultist. He saw things a lot more clearly than the supposedly sane and normal.

>>9561786
Fuck off with your -isms rethoric and trashy concepts

>>9561786
Nah. He became more pessimistic, and stopped wearing the Bonnet Rouge after being disillusioned by Robespierre's actions in the FR, but retained his hatred for hierarchy and imposed order as represented by Urizen. The biggest difference is his perspective shifted from strict dualism (Marriage of Heaven and Hell) to a "fourfold vision" with more possibilities/ambiguities.