Descartes and Moi:Les passions de l'âme,body,mind,emotions and spirit

drawing by marguerita

In the treatise Passions of the Soul (Les passions de l'âme), the last of Descartes' published work, completed in 1649 and dedicated to Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia, the author contributes to a long tradition of theorizing "the passions." The passions were experiences often equated with or labeled as precursors to what are commonly called "emotions" in the Modern period. However, significant differences exist between what a passion putatively was and what an emotion allegedly is. For example, the passions, as suggested by the etymology of the word, were passive in nature; that is to say the experience of a passion was always caused by an object external to the subject. An emotion, as it is commonly rendered in both contemporary psychological discourse as well as popular culture, is usually explained as an event internal to, or taking place within, a subject. Therefore, an emotion is produced by the subject while a passion is suffered by the subject.

In the Passions of the Soul, Descartes defines these phenomena as follows: "perceptions or sensations or excitations of the soul which are referred to it in particular and which are caused, maintained, and strengthened by some movement of the spirits." The "spirits" mentioned here are the "animal spirits" central to Descartes's account of physiology. They function similarly to how the medical establishment now understands the nervous system. Descartes explains that the animal spirits are produced by the blood and are responsible for stimulating the body's movement.

By affecting the muscles, for example, the animal spirits "move the body in all the different ways in which it can be moved." from Wikipedia

P.S En passant, I remember watching an interview with Artur Rubinstein by Jim Lehrer on Channel 13,many years ago,when Jim asks the pianist,how much he practices and his thoughts about contemporary musicians: " I hardly practice,when I play make many mistakes, but I play avec l'âme" was his response.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/aboutus/bio_lehrer.html

Marguerita in the Air: ABI Brazilian PressAssociation

Thanks

M

O Rebu - variations #1- Fonte

drawing by Marguerita

O Rebu’, clássico da TV brasileira, pode virar série

Publicado por Autor(a) Convidado(a) em 29 de junho de 2009

Por Ed Cavalcante, do Post Séries.

Uma das produções mais ousadas da teledramaturgia brasileira, a novela O Rebupode virar uma série para a TV. A Globo está analisando o projeto, que será concebido no formato dos seriados americanos.

O Rebu, de Bráulio Pedroso, foi exibida entre 1974 e 1975. A adaptação está sendo conduzida por Carlos Lombardi (Pé na Jaca).

A novela, que teve 112 capítulos, contava a história de uma festa promovida pelo excêntrico milionário Conrad Mahler (Ziembinski) em homenagem a princesa italiana Olimpia Boncompagni (Marília Branco).

Durante a celebração, uma pessoa é morta. Mas a trama foi além do “quem matou?”. Muitos capítulos depois foram revelados os nomes da vítima e do assassino.

Quem vê, hoje em dia, a saga de Jack Bauer sendo contada em um dia dividido em 24 episódios, saiba que essa inusitada narrativa foi uma das inovações apresentadas em O Rebu. A trama da novela se passava em apenas dois dias.

O Rebu também precedeu os flashbacks e flashforwards de Lost. A novela não respeitava uma ordem cronológica. A ação da trama foi dividida entre o presente e o passado. Em idas e vindas, a narrativa se dividia entre a festa, a investigação policial e a história de cada personagem e o que os levou a ir à comemoração.

Outra ousadia de O Rebu foi abordar de forma aberta a homossexualidae. Conrad Mahler (Ziembinski) tinha um caso velado com Cauê (Buza Ferraz).

O elenco de O Rebu era outro ponto alto. Além dos já citados, nomes como Lima Duarte, Bete Mendes, José Lewgoy, Arlete Salles, Mauro Mendonça, Tereza Raquel, Yara Côrtes e Carlos Vereza, entre outros, brilharam nesse thriller à brasileira.

Já começo a engrossar a torcida para que essa iniciativa vingue e, assim como na atração original, que o elenco seja de peso.

 Série           O Rebu

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O Rebu -Sequence by the Artist: Zozimo,Jornal do Brasil,Aleluia

Glória
Glory, hallelujah, Heavenly Father,
I will give the glory, Lord, to you!
Marvelous and glorious, loving Creator
I will give the glory, Lord, to you!

Be exalted,
Let your name be lifted up forever,
God unchanging, you’re my Lord and Savior,
I will give the glory, Lord, to you!
God Almighty, the heavens and the earth belong
To you, Lord
The sun, the moon, the stars, the seas, they’re
Yours, Lord
I will give the glory, Lord, to you!

Gloria aleluya, padre del cielo,
!Adorate quiero solo a ti! 
Dios majestoso del universo,
!Adorarte quiero solo a ti!

Gloria, gloria aleluya, gloria, gloria aleluya
Gloria, gloria aleluya, gloria, gloria aleluya
Gloria, gloria aleluya, gloria, gloria aleluya
Gloria, gloria aleluya, gloria, gloria aleluya

Repeat Glorias

! Qué tu nombre sea exaltado eternamente!
Tu eres el mismo hoy y siempre
! A ti doy la gloria sólo a ti!
Poderoso tuyos son los cielos y la tierra,
Tuyos son los mares, lãs estrellas
! A ti doy la gloria solo a ti!

Repeat Chorus

Gloria, gloria aleluya, gloria, gloria aleluya
Gloria, gloria aleluya, gloria, gloria aleluya
Gloria, gloria aleluya, gloria, gloria aleluya
Gloria, gloria aleluya, gloria, gloria aleluya 
[ Gloria Lyrics on http://www.lyricsmania.com/ ] 

O Rebu - drawings by Marguerita Bornstein and Antigone

 I am working on my graphic novel,turning my mind back and forth,as I would be watching a surreal movie and by chance listening to a WBGO talk about Antigone.

In fact it is quite fascinating to live and look into memories.

 How much has happened since my  childhood days  in my Sydney kindergarten.

 I wanted to draw and paint,and got punished for refusing to take a nap,Ha!!!!!

I feel like going into this secret  cave and, which by a coincidence,the name  and the cause of my seizures was recently determined.

 I have a a  Cavernous Hemangioma and  while in the hospital,before hearing  about the diagnosis I had an idea  to continue on my ongoing BRAIN series: Going  For a Walk In My Mind.

 The Mind,the Brain ,the Eyes  always  a source of inspiration.

So here I find out that the novela for which I created the title sequence,O Rebu,maybe brought back to television reworked by another known playwright.

Braulio Pedroso,the original playwright, unfortunately not alive, a wonderful satirist known for his theatre plays,who I had the luck to meet when I was a teenager and remember how he interpreted one day my drawings at the time.

 I always loved horses,and then I was drawing horses.

 We were at the barzinho do Museu  when Braulio  believed that a young woman thinking about horses was a sexual craving.....a sensual note to a young virgin,like me ,then. 

So that stayed forever in my mind.

 Who knows if Braulio picked up the vein of my erotic sense pervading  in my art?

 Well erotica is a delicious feeling which few capture and most of the time a scary subject,which throws many into a hysterical mood.

So many years later,in 1974, Tv Globo called me to create the drawings for O Rebu and it was  to match Braulio's vision.

 My drawings,the woman in a champagne glass is there again,reminding me of my moments of pure joy.

Working as an artist,for the press since my teen ager days,taking part in art exhibits and nurturing my art, my raison d'etre and passport for survival,for being an independent woman  and ahead of the times in Brazil,my career was abruptly aborted.

 The Cartoonist In Chief in Brazil felt undermined by a young talented woman,already  pursued by his shadow brother who through his mellifluos tongue, years before set me up to loose my job and be raped.

 I was working at the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo, where  the Editor in Chief taught me to be a designer  and initiate me into my  love of Typography.

I come to New York and instead of being able to work on my art I was slapped  and enrolled into a web of lies,because I did not sleep with an art director at The New York Times,where I was supposed to work,indicated by the Managing Editor Louis Silverstein, to whom I was introduced through Walter Herdeg  the publisher of GRAPHIS,where my work was 

in its pages.

So far,34 years have passed.I never stopped creating and producing my art,married ,conceived two sons .

I must return to the road I was on,like a À la recherche du temps perdu—known in English as In Search of Lost Time andRemembrance of Things Past—for an audience of general readers.

 I enjoy the feedback and interact with masses to bring laughter and illuminate,as I learned from my two parents who saw what Life and Mankind are about,since my mother survived Auschwitz and my father Siberia.

 Why are we listening to Men developing nuclear bombs, and oblivious,so much indifference for natural needs,  and  not realize that we all have to all hold hands and clear the world of the Dark Cloud that only dooms our rights to live?

Helas Antigone but with a hopeful twist.

Marguerita

p.s. A novela tambem inovava na trilha sonora e na abertura. 

A abertura usava aquarelas e colagens da artista plastica Marguerita (hoje residente em Nova York) 

e a trilha sonora era composta por Raul Seixas e Paulo Coelho.http://www.univision.com/uv/video/O-Rebu----Elenco--Quase--Completo/id/3267736593 

“O REBU”, UM CLÁSSICO DA TEVÊ BRASILEIRA, PODE VIRAR SÉRIE

Uma das produções mais ousadas da teledramaturgia brasileira, a novela O Rebu, pode virar uma série de tevê de 12 episódios. Segundo informações, ainda não confirmadas, a Rede Globo está analisando o projeto que será concebido no formato das séries americanas.

A novela O Rebu, de Bráulio Pedroso, exibida entre 1974 e 1975, por seu formato inovador, foi um marco na teledramaturgia brasileira. Quem vê, hoje em dia, a saga de Jack Bauer sendo contada em um dia dividido em 24 episódios, saiba que essa inusitada narrativa foi uma das inovações apresentadas em O Rebu. A novela, que teve 132 capítulos, e se passava em apenas dois dias, contava a história de uma festa em homenagem a uma princesa italiana chamada Olímpia. Durante a festa ocorreu um assassinato. O mistério em torno desse crime foi mais uma inovação da produção. Apenas no capítulo 92 soubemos os nomes do assassino e da vítima.

O elenco da novela era outro ponto alto. Nomes como Ziembinski, José Lewgoy, Arlete Sales,Tereza Raquel, Mauro Mendonça, Carlos Vereza, Yara cortes, Lima Duarte, Buza Ferraz e Bete Mendes brilharam nesse thriller à brasileira. Já começamos a engrossar a torcida para que esse projeto vingue e assim como no projeto original, o elenco seja de peso. Segue um vídeo do Almanaque Globo com cenas raras e um resumo da novela. http://portaldasseries.blogspot.com/2009/06/o-rebu-um-classico-da-teve-brasi

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O Rebu - drawings by Marguerita Bornstein

Here few drawings  from my artwork,

created for  the title sequence of the soap opera in 1974.

 In fact,written by the playwright Braulio Pedroso,known for his political theatre satires, the O REBU remained to these days the most sophisticated novela on Brazilian TV.

 I was 24 years old,already working and published in the Brazilian press since !960,when I was 10.

 At that time,Brazilian women  of a certain class women did not work or worse,looked down if they dared to be independent or in fact make a living  through their art.

 Worse even if  a woman displayed an intellect or a mind.

 So I ,n consequence for being avant garde and outspoken,and yes a legitimate talent,no tricks or shortcuts,became a target left and right.

 My sin,was my passion,my integrity and my desire to make the world laugh.

 And,oh yeah,the public from north and south of the country gave me a feedback,except the "macho" set,that felt their feathers ruffled,as the cartoonist in chief,at the time,who considered his kingdom off limits for women.

His frustrated  brother saw to follow me since my teen ager days, by

setting me up to be raped and then years later follow me across the world to destroy my  personal and professional reputation.

 When my work was published in Zurich,in GRAPHIS,this man,had the audacity to go there and spread lies to the publisher Walter Herdeg.

 Herdeg,himself did not buy his mendacity,but in the interim,as Herdeg himself introduced me to Georges Dargaud,Claude Moliterni  in Paris, who both offered me  contracts to proceed with my drawings and Louis Silverstein,the Managing Editor of The New York Times, everyone  end up finding themselves in some strange controversy,which I only found out, after the damage perpetrated.

Robert Hughes,the art critic vouched for me,as well as Milton Glaser and Herb Lubalin.

 All recognized my original and

individual talent.

Besides my graphic experience,designing newspapers,advertising campaigns,magazines,fine artist,

 I also had two Humor pages,running in national magazines in Brazil,where I also received ennumerous art awards,as well as here in the US,despite being blacklisted.

 

 In 1976, when I found myself stranded in New York,with my mother as my dependent,I become traumatized.

I could not fathom what was happening.

My only  passport for survival,my raison d'etre,after leaving Brazil for suffering injustice there, I found myself in a kafkaesque saga,which I so far did not overcome.

Just because I REFUSED,the "casting couch".

 My drawings,hilarious  on  a stage  where Censorship and Torture were rampant,when  people,journalists,artists,writers and musicians were persecuted,become  along with its creator,me,a young woman,who depended solely on my artwork for survival ,a threat.

 Of course,had I been brought up,by parents with no sense of dignity, I would have used my glamorous self to fiddle around my suitors.

 My parents,both brilliant and wonderful survivors of Hitler's attack on humanity,strssed in me to own myself and never to cave in.

 Ha! Nie Daj cie!!! as my father's last words before he fell into a deep coma,leaving me and my mother to fend for our lives.

 I only hope that my art will pull me back to the path I was on and allow me to work and earn a living.

After all,we are observing that the world.thanks to technology is teari ng the shrouds of violence against women and exposing  at last some of the outrageous indignities that one suffers for being a true self.

 Enough of Waiting for Godot....

 Time to go back on the scene,as I spend too long ,years in limbo,subjected to lies and lies .

 So here I am asking for my human rights.

 Marguerita Bornstein

 P.S In March recent I was included in a exhibit for ABI

 Associacao Brasileira da Imprensa, in Rio de Janeiro.

Smile:Youll find that life is still worthwhile

drawing by marguerita

 from title sequence of O REBU

Words by john turner and geoffrey parsons and music by charlie chaplin

Smile though your heart is aching
Smile even though its breaking
When there are clouds in the sky, youll get by
If you smile through your fear and sorrow
Smile and maybe tomorrow
Youll see the sun come shining through for you

Light up your face with gladness
Hide every trace of sadness
Although a tear may be ever so near
Thats the time you must keep on trying
Smile, whats the use of crying? 
Youll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just smile



Thats the time you must keep on trying
Smile, whats the use of crying? 
Youll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just smile