Talk:Seizure
From Academic Kids
There is a question whether "temporal lobe epilepsy" (the more common term these days is "partial complex") is actually overdiagnosed in surrealists and individuals sympathetic to surrealism who are self-consciously attempting to practice surrealist theory, particularly as regards the interictal aspects of TLE (though the notion of an "interictal personality" has come under some question). The practice of automatism, for instance, tends by its nature to result in hypergraphia, and, moreover, the founder of surrealism, Andre Breton, wrote that "here as elsewhere, quality becomes a function of quantity" and "there is no subject upon which one should refuse to speak and write voluminously."
Daniel C. Boyer
Added external link to my article on temporal-lobe epilepsy and surrealism in Brand X.
Daniel C. Boyer
Mention of automatisms in particular should bring up question about existence of the Pre-automatic dictatorship (http://meta.wikipedia.com/wiki.phtml?title=Pre-automatic+dictatorship). --Daniel C. Boyer
Grand mal/petit mal
I noticed that petit mal seizure has its own article, and assumed that the link provided at the bottom there for grand mal seizure meant that the latter also has a seperate article. Oops. siafu 18:36, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Perhaps petit mal seizure should be merged here. JFW | T@lk 18:45, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
