Prozac-propelled Postmodern Poetry, Partly (II)

Authors

  • Ioan Diaconu George Enescu National University of Arts Iași
  • Vlad Ichim Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy Iași
  • Irina Ioniță Croitoru Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy Iași
  • Carmen Gabriela Lăzăreanu Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Iași
  • Bogdan Pirvu Mavromati Emergency Hospital Botosani

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18662/lumenphs/11.1/71

Keywords:

Prozac, Liza Porter, Martha Silano, Postmodern identity, Female identity

Abstract

Conventionally singled out of the class of antidepressants, Prozac is further associated in what follows with poetic activity in terms of postmodern female identity. The two women under consideration, Liza Porter and Martha Silano, are lost and adrift in their stressed-out dysfunctional families, not in the least because of their mood disorders, major depression and respectively postpartum psychosis. Psychotherapy turning out to be inefficient for them in the long run, antidepressants or rather a combination of them come into play, and they restore a sense, even if more or less altered, of some poetic identity. In their interviews, they actually admit they are both cases of a definite progress from non-poetry to poetry. We will take either at her word, intent as we are on relating poet restoration to human recuperation.

Author Biographies

Ioan Diaconu, George Enescu National University of Arts Iași

PhD, Associate Professor of Piano

Vlad Ichim, Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy Iași

PhD, Associate Professor of Medical Sociology

Irina Ioniță Croitoru, Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy Iași

PhD, Modern Languages

Carmen Gabriela Lăzăreanu, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Iași

PhD, Social Assistance

Bogdan Pirvu, Mavromati Emergency Hospital Botosani

MD, PhD, Clinical Psychiatry, Mavromati Emergency Hospital Botoşani.

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Published

2024-03-25

How to Cite

Diaconu, I. F., Ichim, V., Ioniță Croitoru, I., Lăzăreanu, C. G., & Pirvu, B. (2024). Prozac-propelled Postmodern Poetry, Partly (II). Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty: Philosophy & Humanistic Sciences, 11(1), 12-24. https://doi.org/10.18662/lumenphs/11.1/71

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