The Evolution of John Nash's Male Melancholia: From Honor to Hope to Humor |
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| Authors: | Nathan Steven Carlin |
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| Institution: | (1) Nathan S. Carlin is a doctoral student, Rice University, Houston, Texas, U.S.;(2) Rice University, Department of Religious Studies- MS 15, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, Texas, 77251-1892, U.S. |
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| Abstract: | This article is a response to the psychoanalytic study of mathematical genius John Nash by Donald Capps, and I apply Capps's own theory of male melancholia to John Nash. Capps interpreted Nash's life by dividing it into three phases: 1) predelusional; 2) delusional; and 3) postdelusional. I correlate Capps's three forms of male religiousness (i.e., honor, hope, and humor) with these three phases, respectively. The explanatory value of this interpretation is that it locates Capps's psychobiography of Nash within Capps's larger writings, thus providing an understanding of Nash as a deeply (if unconventionally) religious man. |
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| Keywords: | Capps Erikson Freud Kohut Nash |
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