Maurycy Bornstein (Bornsztajn) i nie tak bardzo szalony geniusz
Maurycy Bornstein (Bornsztajn) and Not That Insane Genius

Author(s): Maciej Jarzewicz
Subject(s): Cultural history, History of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: genius; creativity; degeneration theory; psychoanalysis; Polish Jews
Summary/Abstract: Maurycy Bornstein, a Polish-Jewish psychiatrist and one of the pioneers of psychoanalysis in Poland, had a lifelong interest in arts and the phenomenon of creativity. Inspired by Cesare Lombroso and his fin-de-siècle followers, Bornstein published his own interpretation of a genius-madness theory. In the interwar period he was inspired directly by Sigmund Freud or, surprisingly, Ernst Kretschmer, which led to his own synthesis in the early post-war era.

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