My suggestion is to focus on low serotonin and low dopamine levels, from a
lack of challenges in his surroundings and, among others, perhaps not
enough exposure to direct (sun)light - or at least a geographical change
that affected him. Do you know anything about how much alcohol he used?
(another long term serotonin killer)
 
Arwin
 
 
>As I have stated before, I believe that Pound suffered from an
>undiagnosed manic-depressive (bipolar) disorder.  I am pursiuing that
>hypothesis in my biography.
>
>                                                Tim Redman
>
>On Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:00:04 PDT jpg13 <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Re Pound's Mental Illness:
>>
>> I wonder if we might move the discussion beyond questions of sanity or
>> insanity, and into much murkier territory.  It seems clear that we can
find
>> evidence of both from throughout Pound's career.  The St. Elizabeths
>> nursing logs recording Pound lying down on the road in the winter and
>> claiming that he couldn't go on make it sound like depression, and
>> these days we consider depression  a treatable illness, rather than a
lifestyle
>> choice.  Is Pound's depression a reaction to his earlier psychotic
>> periods?  Letters from Pound to Olga in the early 1940s, when he was
making
>> broadcasts in Rome, show him constantly exhausted, taking frequent naps,
>> sleeping long hours--again, it could be a sign of severe depression.
>>
>> The question seems to me: what kinds of responsibility accrues to the
>> language act, either over the radio, or in poetry?  Is there a way we
can
>> deal with the most eccentric or extreme of Pound's writing without
>> putting it in the literary equivalent of an insane asylum? Then again,
as
>> E.P. put it on his arrival in Italy in 1958: "All America  is an insane
>> asylum."
>>
>> I for one would welcome the input of medical professionals out there, if
>> there are any on the list.
>>
>> Jonathan Gill
>> Columbia University
>
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