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[Jacqueline Colombier <jpc171@hotmail.com>]

Bonsoir F minor,

I don't know how it happened you did not get the mail I sent the 28. 09. 00,
so I put it back :

Yes, a special thought for Gould's birthday. Do we owe to Gould's mother
ante-natal musical "training", to which Kate alludes, his musical genius ?
Olivier Messiaen was convinced that his musical sense was determined by his
pregnant mother writing poetry ! As a psychoanalyst I wont't deny the
influence of the mother's desire but the belief of a son is very different
from what Elmer names "psychiatric autopsies" made by others. Considering
the magnitude of emotional experience of Beauty Gould gives us, his
contributions to musical knowledge, his daring life along ethical choices,
all sources of longlasting  intellectual, artistic, spiritual nourishments
for us, I find shameful the psychiatric reconstructions that have been made
about him.
As a matter of fact I am ending a paper bringing together Gould's Solitude
Trilogy with the work of an English psychoanalyst, W. R. Bion : A Memoir of
the Future. (In my use of the contrapuntic key for the reading of Bion's
work maybe I'll come under Jim's blame for literary work named "fugue" ! = I
leave this discussion until the paper is published, soon).
Bion was the first psychoanalyst to acknowledge a specific place to the
"mystic" - the creative exceptional person in whatever field - and the
conflict between the disruptive force of a "mystic" and the group. One
defensive way is to knock down the individuality of the mystic with the use
of psychiatry : "Geznius, writes Bion, has been said to be akin to madness.
It would be more true to say that psychotic mechanisms require a genius to
manipulate them in a manner adequate to promote growth or life".
Yesterday, reading Bion, I fell on passages which reminded me of the
discussion on F minor about Gould's preference for the grey colour.
In one passage Bion tries to give a representation of not verbal and not
mentalized elements : "in case they become visible I might, he writes, be
able to put them into the appropriate colour" but he cannot think of a
better formulation than "gross darkness" (Milton was his favorite poet); in
another passage Bion writes that "there is something in the range of colour
perception analogous to perfect pitch in music", and we know that Gould had
perfect pitch.
To come full circle : my asking about Tovey's book was connected to Bion :
he had Tovey's "Companion to The Art of fugue" in his library. Thanks to
those who provided informations about this book (I made some more inquiries
and will e-mail some interesting sites later on).

  "A noir, E blanc, I rouge, U vert, O bleu : voyelles,
     Je dirai quelque jour vos naissances latentes... "

            No grey colour in Rimbaud's "Voyelles" !
                         Best,
                      Jacqueline


(So that was the message. It was followed by a second one on "oxymoron" in
French with a few examples = was it lost also ??? The one with some sites on
Tovey was received).


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