gillbrooks opened this issue on Mar 10, 2005 ยท 116 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Sun, 13 March 2005 at 2:38 PM
Depression is internally driven.
If one is predisposed to depression- it wouldn't matter if he did find paradise- he still would have been unable to cope and the results would have been the same.
True, insofar as this statement goes.
But I think that it's interesting to note the fact that individuals of Paul Gauguin's ilk -- that is to say: of his particular intellectual/philosophical bent -- tend to be depressives in general.
Not that others don't suffer from depression too, mind you -- it's just that they are usually better equipped to deal with the problem.
His being a depressive doesn't change the fact that he went looking for something that he didn't find.