A Newly Discovered Manuscript of Opicinus de Canistris: A Preliminary Report

Salomon, Richard

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“…This too is inconsistent with the presence of a major depressive disorder, especially in terms of vegetative symptoms. Opicinus's detailed, intricate, and controlled drawings are hard to relate to a manic episode and there are few suggestions of impulsive or uninhibited behavior in the autobiographical passages translated by Salomon (1936Salomon ( , 1953. Finally, although many passages are confessional, there are no signs of any struggle with alcohol or substance abuse in Opicinus's manuscripts.…”

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“…Fortunately, excellent art historical analyses and some psychological perspectives are available to provide information on stylistic and expressive conventions of the time as well as on Opicinus's violations of such conventions (e.g., Kris, 1952, pp. 118-127;Salomon, 1936Salomon, , 1953Roux & Laharie, 1997). It turns out, for example, that religious and symbolic interpretation of the world and world events and the search for meaning and spiritual significance in mundane occurrences and coincidences were common pursuits in the Middle Ages.…”

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“…Fortunately, extensive autobiographical material has survived and been translated to provide an account of this man (Salomon, 1936(Salomon, , 1953. Opicinus de Canistris (1296-1350) was born in Lomello, Italy, and grew up in Pavia.…”

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“…Some of the autobiographical entries translated and described by Salomon (1936Salomon ( , 1953) suggest self-deprecation and depression and raise the challenge of excluding mood disorder as an explanation for his behavior. However, Opicinus's apparent delusion of having a hand with special spiritual powers seems to have preceded these mood-related entries.…”

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“…The Mediterranean basin took on the form of a bearded man and represented the Devil. The commentary was written in Latin and, according to Salomon (1953), included many enigmatic, illogical, and incoherent passages: "involuntary and irresistible associations provoked by a single word or name cut across the way of his thought and lead his argumentation astray, not rarely into mere verbiage." The notes indicate that Opicinus identified himself with the Europe-man.…”

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Historical origins of schizophrenia: Two early madmen and their illness

Heinrichs¹

2003

J History Behavioral Science

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Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness with a remarkably short recorded history. Unlike depression and mania, which are recognizable in ancient texts, schizophrenia-like disorder appeared rather suddenly in the psychiatric literature of the early nineteenth century. This could mean that the illness is a recent disease that was largely unknown in earlier times. But perhaps schizophrenia existed, embedded and disguised within more general concepts of madness and within the arcane languages and cultures of remote times. Both possibilities present major challenges to historical and psychiatric scholarship. These challenges are explored in this paper by presenting two "new" cases of schizophrenia, one from the eighteenth and one from the fourteenth century. The cases suggest that the illness may have existed as early as the medieval period. However, establishing the population prevalence of schizophrenia in earlier times--and therefore resolving the permanence-recency debate--may not be a feasible enterprise.

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Historical origins of schizophrenia: Two early madmen and their illness

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2003

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Opicinus de Canistris: some notes from Jung's unpublished Eranos Seminar on the medieval Codex Palatinus Latinus 1993

Quaglino¹,

Romano²,

Bernardini³

2010

J Analytical Psychology

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Jung held an informal seminar for a limited number of students after the end of the Eranos Conference in August, 1943. All traces of this seminar were lost until the notes taken on it by one of the students, Alwine von Keller, were found in 2006. Jung's talk consisted of a psychological commentary on a series of images in the medieval Codex Palatinus Latinus 1993, attributed to Opicinus de Canistris (1296-c.1352), a fourteenth-century Italian clergyman, mystic, miniaturist, and cartographer. Jung interpreted Opicinus' images as a series of mandalas in which the Shadow, the dark principle, does not manage to be integrated into a balanced system. Opicinus tried to settle this division into opposites, which constitutes the main problem in modern times, while remaining inside the system of Christian doctrine. However, he did not succeed in his attempt to integrate the principle of the Shadow on the doctrinal level because he was not aware of the very same division in his own unconscious. Our article points out the features in the seminar where Jung seemed to show much more originality in his interpretation than other psychoanalytic studies on Opicinus or other analytical-psychological readings of medieval Christian art.

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J. ment. sci

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A Newly Discovered Manuscript of Opicinus de Canistris: A Preliminary Report

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Opicinus de Canistris: some notes from Jung's unpublished Eranos Seminar on the medieval Codex Palatinus Latinus 1993

Autobiographies of Former Mental Patients Addendum

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