Memoir of the Future

Isaías Mehsohn

Dr. Isaías Melsohn foi homenageado pela sua filha Marina Melsohn Lisbona com um cha petit comité no seu apartamento em Higienópolis. Presentes estavam alguns psicanalistas, e a conversa foi entorno ao último congresso sobre Disturbios Alimentares , a o trabalho do Dr. Isaías que sempre fez referência a Claude Levy Straus e seu texto "o feiticeiro e sua magia"( texto em Inglês abaixo)

Claude Lévi Strauss

The sorcerer and his magic

Since the pioneering work of Cannon, we understand more clearly the psycho-phisiological mechanisms under-lying the instances reported from many parts of the world of death by exorcism and the casting spells( *1). An individual who is aware that he is the object of sorcery is thouroughly convinced that he is doomed according to the most solemn traditions of his group. His friends \nd relatives share this certainty. From then on the community withdraws. Standing aloof from the accursed, it treats him not only as though he were already dead but as though he were a source of danger to the entire group. On every ocasion and by every action, the social body suggests death to the unfortunate victim,who no longer hopes to escape what he considers to be his ineluctable fate. Shortly thereafter, sacred rites are held to dispatch him to the realm of shadows. First bruttaly torn from all of his family and social ties and excluded from all functions and activities through which he experienced self -awareness, then banished by the same forces the world of the living, the victim yields to the combined effect of intense terror, the sudden total withdrawal of the multiple reference systems provided by the support of the group, and, finally, to the group's decisive reversal in proclaiming him-once a living man, with rights and obligations- dead and an object of fear, ritual and taboo. Physical integrity cannot withstand the dissolution of the social personality.(2)

*1W.B. Cannon,"Voodoo' Death", American Anthropologist, n.s.,XLIV (1942).
2An Australian aborigine was brought to Darwin hospital in April 1956, apparently dying of this type of sorcery. He was placed in an oxygen tent and fed intranvenously. He gradually recovered, convinced that the white man's magic was the stronger. See Arthur Morley in the London Times, April 22, 1956, p11

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Jhon Keats

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To Charles Brown, 30 November 1820
'There is one thought enough to kill me - I have been well, healthy, alert &c, walking with her - and now - the knowledge of contrast, feeling for light and shade, all that information (primitive sense) necessary for a poem are great enemies to the recovery of the stomach.'

O trecho acima é da última carta que Keats escreveu .

An Overview
John Keats lived only twenty-five years and four months (1795-1821), yet his poetic achievement is extraordinary. His writing career lasted a little more than five years (1814-1820), and three of his great odes--"Ode to a Nightingale," "Ode on a Grecian Urn," and "Ode on Melancholy"--were written in one month. Most of his major poems were written between his twenty-third and twenty-fourth years, and all his poems were written by his twenty-fifth year. In this brief period, he produced poems that rank him as one of the great English poets. He also wrote letters which T.S. Eliot calls "the most notable and the most important ever written by any English poet."