Once upon a time in a fascist country there was a diagnosis
of "schizophrenia". It was of James Joyce’s daughter. He had been known for his
famous remark that " No sooner does a bird spring to life in Ireland than a
thousand nets are sprung to catch it" .Like her father James with his dark
blonde hair, the young Lucia Joyce had the A+ blood group. She may have suffered from
bacterial meningitis giving rise to a colourful temperament wrongly diagnosed as
schizophrenia under the influence of Joyce’s so called benefactress in London.
Bacterial meningitis often leads to a susceptibility to
tuberculosis witch manifests itself with florid symptoms which are the origin
of the cult of psychiatry. Her promiscuity as her father knew was a result of
the problems which Joyce knew to be “physical”.
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