Problem twórczości w koncepcji Jana Mazurkiewicza

Jan Mazurkiewicz (1871-1947), pioneer of the Polish school in psychiatry, linked the problem of the genius and creator with the level of development of the nervous system and its emotional function. The nervous system and its anatomical basis display vertical hierarchy. Due to that special structure, emotional and cognitive dynamisms are transformed and due to features of the cerebral cortex and specific emotionality bound with this structure (the frontal lobes) man is able to create science, culture, and art. When the control of the higher nerve centers is in disorder, the person goes mad, often destructive in realm of culture and society. Thus the genius, present in culture of many generations, fights with madness that destroys and kills. The function of the frontal-logical dynamisms is stronger, however structurally and developmentally it is the weakest. The results obtained by J. Mazurkiewicz seem to be, as compared with contemporary state of the art in science, still actual since they are based on relevant clinical evidence.