These 70 writers are actually all the same person - Ilan Stavans
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Date: 2024-03-01
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ted_ed
I don't think it's necessary to make a snap diagnosis of multiple personality disorder. Havent you ever read a novel written from the viewpoints of multiple characters The author has built an image of each character in their mind in order to write consistently from that character's viewpoint. This is creativity, not insanity. Granted, Pessoa was eccentric, but many artists are, indeed some cultivate their eccentricity. He was certainly intellectually brilliant and extremely imaginative.
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I don't think it's necessary to make a snap diagnosis of multiple personality disorder. Havent you ever read a novel written from the viewpoints of multiple characters The author has built an image of each character in their mind in order to write consistently from that character's viewpoint. This is creativity, not insanity. Granted, Pessoa was eccentric, but many artists are, indeed some cultivate their eccentricity. He was certainly intellectually brilliant and extremely imaginative.
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wren_.
I wonder if he had some form of dissociative identity disorder. according to him, all of his personas felt like distinct and separate people living inside his head. he also seemed to have little to no control over how they acted. some of them even claimed that they were the real pessoa instead of him. his heteronyms appear to have started at a very early age, which is very common in DID. makes me wonder what modern medicine would think of the guy
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I wonder if he had some form of dissociative identity disorder. according to him, all of his personas felt like distinct and separate people living inside his head. he also seemed to have little to no control over how they acted. some of them even claimed that they were the real pessoa instead of him. his heteronyms appear to have started at a very early age, which is very common in DID. makes me wonder what modern medicine would think of the guy
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johntr5964
Pessoa's Mensagem popularized the concept of the Fifth Empire, a Portuguese global realm of the mind that was going to bring world peace. This is today linked with various mystical and esoteric philosophies and teachings.
The only book of his that I have read is The Anarchist Banker a very interesting little philosophical work structured as an ancient Greek Socratic dialogue. I'd definately recommend it.
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Pessoa's Mensagem popularized the concept of the Fifth Empire, a Portuguese global realm of the mind that was going to bring world peace. This is today linked with various mystical and esoteric philosophies and teachings.
The only book of his that I have read is The Anarchist Banker a very interesting little philosophical work structured as an ancient Greek Socratic dialogue. I'd definately recommend it.
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rickseiden1
Sounds a lot like dissociative identity disorder to this armchair psychiatrist. Especially when one of his heteronyms claimed that it was real and Pessoa didn't exist. (I am not trying to diagnose here as I have no training whatsoever in psychology, just offering a very poorly informed thought that could be dead wrong)
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Sounds a lot like dissociative identity disorder to this armchair psychiatrist. Especially when one of his heteronyms claimed that it was real and Pessoa didn't exist. (I am not trying to diagnose here as I have no training whatsoever in psychology, just offering a very poorly informed thought that could be dead wrong)
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MeemingStar
There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.
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There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.
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tomsmeida
Thank you Ted-Ed for this video about Pessoa! Undoubtedly one of if not the most important and remarkable Portuguese poet of all time!
For the curious, go and read the Carta a Adolfo Casais Monteiro, a letter in which he reveals the genesis of his 3 main heteronyms to a friend.
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Thank you Ted-Ed for this video about Pessoa! Undoubtedly one of if not the most important and remarkable Portuguese poet of all time!
For the curious, go and read the Carta a Adolfo Casais Monteiro, a letter in which he reveals the genesis of his 3 main heteronyms to a friend.
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Personna96
As a Pessoa myself, I get asked a lot if I'm related to him but unfortunately he didn't have close relatives or kids.
However, he left to the world a rich and intricate literary work.
Such an honor to share the surname and speak the same language as he did.
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As a Pessoa myself, I get asked a lot if I'm related to him but unfortunately he didn't have close relatives or kids.
However, he left to the world a rich and intricate literary work.
Such an honor to share the surname and speak the same language as he did.
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TurboBronco239
Sounds like he was a system of alters, like he had DID or OSDD. And before anyone gets up in arms about discovery date of those disorders here is my response to anything related
Mt. Everest was discovered in 1856, but the mountain was still there.
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Sounds like he was a system of alters, like he had DID or OSDD. And before anyone gets up in arms about discovery date of those disorders here is my response to anything related
Mt. Everest was discovered in 1856, but the mountain was still there.
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WhereIsAlice_
I feel like he respects the concept of people, he respects and appreciates the differences of others even if he agrees, disagrees, or is neutral about their ideologies and perspectives in life. Wearing their shoes and experience that person's life.
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I feel like he respects the concept of people, he respects and appreciates the differences of others even if he agrees, disagrees, or is neutral about their ideologies and perspectives in life. Wearing their shoes and experience that person's life.
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ted_ed
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This is so cool : o
I want to say something else about how cool this is but idk how to describe it
Edit 3: y’know i wanted to say how cool it was again but idk how to say it
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8 hour ago
33, 912 views
2. 6k likes
108 comments
This is so cool : o
I want to say something else about how cool this is but idk how to describe it
Edit 3: y’know i wanted to say how cool it was again but idk how to say it
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ambarrose
I'm Portuguese so when the video popped up I just had to come over. We study him throughout our school years. Sometimes it's a huge nightmare exactly because he's so many people at the same time, with consistency in the writing.
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I'm Portuguese so when the video popped up I just had to come over. We study him throughout our school years. Sometimes it's a huge nightmare exactly because he's so many people at the same time, with consistency in the writing.
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user-ws5tu2ys9r
Did he have DID (dissociative identity disorder) Because I'm confused about whether he was really good at making characters or he really did have it; but in this case, not a disorder but all of them him I'm confused.
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Did he have DID (dissociative identity disorder) Because I'm confused about whether he was really good at making characters or he really did have it; but in this case, not a disorder but all of them him I'm confused.
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MikosoOsaco
Pessoa means Person in Portuguese lol with the context of the video, I wonder if Pessoa is even his real name then. If it is, maybe it's something that contributed to him grappling with his identity
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Pessoa means Person in Portuguese lol with the context of the video, I wonder if Pessoa is even his real name then. If it is, maybe it's something that contributed to him grappling with his identity
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Equ1n0x88
If one can write letters as someone else, in a language other than their native one, at 6 years old, regardless of how well off their family is, I doubt you can deny there is genius at work there
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If one can write letters as someone else, in a language other than their native one, at 6 years old, regardless of how well off their family is, I doubt you can deny there is genius at work there
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claudiacouto5615
Thank you so much for this wonderful video about our great writer Fernando Pessoa! It's really special to see him recognized for his work and his peculiar personality.
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Thank you so much for this wonderful video about our great writer Fernando Pessoa! It's really special to see him recognized for his work and his peculiar personality.
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faaa999
I usually love these videos but the background sound is just a little bit louder than it should be for me to listen clearly to the narrator. Otherwise this was fascinating
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I usually love these videos but the background sound is just a little bit louder than it should be for me to listen clearly to the narrator. Otherwise this was fascinating
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jp-st8vn
Can anyone tell me about some good Portuguese novelists, short story writers and poets name ( with a few works of them) The list can be as big as you want to make.
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Can anyone tell me about some good Portuguese novelists, short story writers and poets name ( with a few works of them) The list can be as big as you want to make.
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franciscol3510
Could this be a case of. I know it's not called that but I don't remember the actual name, so, Is this a case of multiple personality disorder
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Could this be a case of. I know it's not called that but I don't remember the actual name, so, Is this a case of multiple personality disorder
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