“Characters on stage should be flat, like clothes in a fashion show: what you get should be no more than what you see. Psychological realism is repulsive, because it allows us to escape unpalatable reality by taking shelter in the “luxuriousness” of personality, losing ourselves in the depth of individual character. The writer's task is to block this manoeuvre, to chase us off to a point from which we can view the horror with a dispassionate eye.” ShouldCharacterShowsRealityEyeIndividualViewsStageFashionPersonalityHorrorClothesLosingTasksDepthBlockPsychologicalFlatsShelterRealismFashion ShowDispassionateLosing Ourselves Author:Elfriede Jelinek
“Western man represents himself, on the political or psychological stage, in a spectacular world-theater. Our personality is innately cinematic, light-charged projections flickering on the screen of Western consciousness.” MenWorldLightPoliticalConsciousnessStagePersonalityTheaterWesternScreensPsychologicalProjectionSpectacularCinematic Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
“The sort of resilient personality who can bounce back quickly after a major setback, does so largely because they quickly generate positive emotions which serve as a physical and psychological antidote to bad news.” DoeEmotionPersonalityMajorsNewsPsychologicalAntidoteSetbackBad NewsResilientBouncePositive Emotions Author:Nick Baylis
“A sense of reverence is necessary for psychological health. If a person has no sense of reverence, no feeling that there is anyone or anything that inspires awe, it cuts the personality off completely from the nourishing springs of the unconscious.” IfsPersonsFeelingsCuttingInspirePersonalitySpringPsychologicalUnconsciousAweReverencePsychological Health Author:Robert Johnson
“No psychological grid works, because if you try to place every personality in one particular grid then you'd need about 4 billion grids because we are all so unique.” IfsNeedsTryingParticularPersonalityUniqueBillionsPsychologicalGrids Author:Max Lucado
“Literature has become too psychological. We discount the physical, when in fact much of life is physical. People's personalities are partly formed by, or in response to, how they take up space; the physical mask has some relation, howsoever obscure, to the mental work happening underneath.” PeopleFactsLife IsLiteratureSpacePersonalityHappeningsRelationResponsePsychologicalMaskObscureDiscounts Author:Karan Mahajan