Angie found a great (though short) video of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama who suffers from a Depersonalization disorder. While we have at some points touched upon the interest in certain movements of the 20th century in mental disorders (Surrealism especially), we haven’t really looked at it concretely. This would be an example of how they might have viewed the link between the creation of art and the ‘disorders’ that artists either suffer from or attempt to channel. That is, to explore another reality which opposes the notion of a unified and singular sense of Self. Yayoi Kusama’s disorder sounds eerily familiar to something we saw in Clarice Lispector’s short story. Thanks, Angie!

You can find the video here (hopefully it works, I couldn’t find an independent link):

https://www.facebook.com/playgroundenglish/videos/vb.259754044357933/373177613015575/?type=2&theater

And here is a Wikipedia entry on the disorder she suffers from:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depersonalization