Pleasure-, and Need-Producing Mezcal. Fragmentaria
Pleasure-, and Need-Producing Mezcal. Fragmentaria
Author(s): LENUŞ GURGUŢĂ, Narcis Aprodu, ADRIANA PREOTU, Ioan Florin Diaconu, Bogdan C.S. PîrvuSubject(s): Psychology, British Literature
Published by: Addleton Academic Publishers
Keywords: motivation; dopamine; schizophrenia; anxiety; schizodiscourse; affective disorder;
Summary/Abstract: We will claim after several in-situ experiments and a thorough reading of the literature in case, Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano included to be sure, that the mezcal-induced psychosis, which could well be called “mescalitis,” different from “mescaline,” interests mainly the dopaminergic system, hyperexcited by the pleasure to drink and, equally so, by the need to drink – to the extent one could rightly speak in the end of a so-called mescal-induced psychosis. This “final stage” left aside for the moment though, we will now be focusing on the thin line that differentiates pleasure from need.
Journal: Romanian Journal of Artistic Creativity
- Issue Year: 8/2020
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 29-40
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English
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