#34 - Psychology, Creativity, Art, and Madness

About psychology, vegan dinners, Scandinavian loneliness, defining personality, the Big Five personality traits, disorders and inflexibility, Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, defining abnormality, psychiatry vs. social psychology, cultural norms and expected behaviour, Sartre’s Nausea, suspending the absurdity, creativity as skill or trait, open—mindedness and exploration, Art Basel and artistic intention, Maurizio Cattelan’s duct—taped banana, the definition of art, R.G. Collingwood’s aesthetics, horror films, Haruki Murakami’s surrealism, minimalism and reverse phenomenology, human limitation, psychoanalysis, Carl Jung’s archetypes, putting people in boxes, and crazy geniuses. Maja Malmcrona (@majamalmcrona) is a Switzerland—based contemporary artist from Sweden. Frederik Bredgaard is a Denmark—based consultant with a psychology degree from the University of Copenhagen. Recorded on October 4, 2021. http://majamalmcrona.com http://instagram.com/majamalmcrona