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The poet Juan Ramón Jiménez suffered throughout his life symptoms compatible with a depressive-melancholic disorder, which can be traced both in his autobiographical and lyric accounts.
This is one of the conclusions of the doctoral thesis conducted at the University of Murcia by Javier Andrés García Castro.
For the author of this research, this pathology "would explain the cause of his recurring hospital admissions, as well as his emotional ups and downs and other eccentric behaviors."
Another conclusion of the doctoral thesis is that it is possible to identify in the traditional division in three stages of the poetic work of Juan Ramón Jiménez the typical features of a mystical process.
For the new doctor, "these two questions, the spiritual and the psychopathological, find, in turn, a common substrate at the root of a very peculiar temperament: we refer to the melancholic temperament."
"This temperament has been traditionally attributed to people of genius, especially those with mystical and poetic inclinations and would be characterized by the presence of obsessive ideas, fears, sadness and emotional imbalances, traits all of which are present in life and The work of the poet of Moguer ".
In order to carry out this research work, the author consulted the main databases and used other resources, such as the bibliographic funds of the Zenobia-Juan Ramón Jiménez Foundation and the heirs of both.
The doctoral thesis was directed by Professor Javier Díez de Revenga and judged by a court presided over by professor of the University of Bergamo (Italy) Gabrielle Morelli.
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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