1.3. Personality disorder: Richard Dadd
Consider the congenital personality traits of the artist Richard Dadd.
Richard Dadd (1 August 1817 – 7 January 1886) was an English painter of the Victorian era, noted for his depictions of fairies and other supernatural subjects, Orientalist scenes, and enigmatic genre scenes, rendered with obsessively minuscule detail. Most of the works for which he is best known were created while he was a patient in Bethlem and Broadmoor hospitals.
In 1842, he participated in an expedition to Greece and the Middle East, where in December, while sailing on the Nile, he experienced a spiritual upheaval – he felt like the incarnation of the Egyptian god Osiris (the incident was considered a sunstroke). On the way home, in Rome and Paris, Dadd lost control several more times.
After returning in 1843, he was declared mentally ill and placed in the care of his family. In August 1843, seeing in his father the incarnation of the devil, Dadd killed him with a knife (cutting his throat and finishing him with a knife in the chest) and went to Paris; along the way, he tried to kill (or killed) another person, was captured in Paris by the police and confessed to parricide.
Modern researchers suggest that he suffered from schizophrenia (apparently, he was genetically predisposed to it – all his brothers became victims of a mental disorder) or from bipolar disorder. Dadd was placed in the Bedlam Psychiatric Hospital, from where he was transferred to Broadmoor in 1864.
Dadd spent almost the rest of his life in various hospitals, where he continued to paint. It was there that Richard created his most famous works, among them ««Masterful swing of a fabulous woodcutter».
Richard Dadd was born August 1, 1817, the octanalytic personality formula
19 lunar day / 43-Pisces / 86% – //31-Leo / 3-43-Ox.
The formula shows the congenital personality traits:
– Richard Dadd was born in the «waning moon» phase, the illumination of the moon’s surface is 86%;
– pronounced congenital dominant managerial abilities («four» twice as first dominant);
– hypertrophied expressed congenital dominant creative abilities («three» as a background dominant, as first dominant and twice as second dominant);
– congenital dominant analytical abilities («one» as second dominant);