[MD] Neologism

[ian glendinning]

Funny, but true SA.

Creativity goes hand in hand with paranoid schizophrenia.
We all need a little of it, we paraschizoids.

Ian

On 3/23/08, Heather Perella <spiritualadirondack at yahoo.com> wrote:
>    SA:  While on the topic of Mahayana in another
> thread, I was following its' historical lineage into
> Zen in Wikipedia, and I came upon this quote on Dogen:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D?gen
>
>
>    "A master stylist, D?gen is noted not only for his
> prose, but also for his poetry (in Japanese waka style
> and various Chinese styles). D?gen's use of language
> is unconventional by any measure. According to D?gen
> scholar Steven Heine: "Dogen's poetic and
> philosophical works are characterized by a continual
> effort to express the inexpressible by perfecting
> imperfectable speech through the creative use of
> wordplay, neologism, and lyricism, as well as the
> recasting of traditional expressions"
>
>
> SA continues:  I looked the word "neologism" up, and
> found a very funny definition for people who are
> creative.  If you go to the link, then creativity in a
> nelogistic sense is spelled out, but then noticed
> defintion #4 as follows:
>
> http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/neologism
>
>     "4.  Psychiatry. a new word, often consisting of
> a combination of other words, that is understood only
> by the speaker: occurring most often in the speech of
> schizophrenics."
>
> SA continues:  Hmmmm... I guess I'm a schizo.
>
>
> lovely, oh so lovely,
> SA
>
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