心理學這個詞 Psychology 的起源，是從希臘文 Psyche 而來。這個詞的本意是“吹氣”。上帝造第一個人亞當時，向他吹了一口氣，亞當就有了生命。人類自有了生命，人性和心理活動也就隨之而產生。 Psyche賽琪，也是一個希臘神話故事裡的女主角，這個美麗的神話，一直是藝術家們爭相描繪的熱門題材，計有美術，雕塑，文學，音樂，戲劇等等。 讓我們張開思想的翅膀，飛往奧林匹斯山，赴眾神的宴席。 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6dpAgRXuaU

Edgar Allan Poe 愛倫.坡,，美國作家，詩人，評論家。他的作品，著力於人物的精神孤獨，陰暗心理，死亡意識，病態形象，腐朽中見華麗，頹廢中見唯美，愛倫.坡賦予“哥特” 這個文學派別，矛盾而奇異的復雜美感，如黑玫瑰在暗夜盛開。 愛倫.坡常常被描繪成惡魔式人物，被貼上“褻瀆神”的標籤。但是他在他的“藝術遺言” - “Eureka” 中，嚴肅地論證了上帝的存在。 這本150頁的小書，集天文學，邏輯學，神學，科學，美學為一體。先知般的發現了如The Big Bang Theory “大爆炸論”，Heat death of the Universe “熱寂說” 等宇宙理論。天文學家們甚至認為，愛倫.坡是堪與牛頓，愛因斯坦媲美的天才人物。 Eureka”文字優美，意境神秘。它是愛倫.坡一生創作的總結，一紙“藝術遺言”，它的確是一首 ”詩”。 愛倫坡發現了神學的宇宙，真理的宇宙！愛倫坡的理論終於 “被高舉並永生”了！ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFQXjLAy4SY

Marie Thérèse Carlotte夏洛特公主，是法國國王路易十六和 Marie Antoinette 瑪麗王后的長女，是國王和王后唯一長大成人的孩子，也是大革命期間唯一倖存的皇室囚犯。 孤兒公主在17歲生日前夕，法國革命政府用她和奧地利交換了一批囚徒， 1795年12月31日：法軍和奧地利軍在萊茵河邊停火。 約瑟芬在遇到拿破崙之前，曾向朋友們講起，在她的少女時代有一位黑人預言師對她的預言“在經歷了不幸的婚姻和守寡之後，有一天妳會戴上王冠，成為‘不僅僅是王后’” 拿破崙和約瑟芬，這兩位出生在法國邊緣小島的局外人，他們成為了法國皇帝和皇后，這個預言彷佛帶著某種巫術魔咒的力量，神奇的應驗了... #拿破崙 #法國大革命 #約瑟芬 #拿破崙和約瑟芬 #馬提尼克的玫瑰 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bSFG9kgAJM

Music: Reinhold Gliere Choreography and Directe by A.R.Tomskeho Cast Jarmila Mansingrová Miroslav Kura Martin Tapák Rudolf Novohradský Lubomír Panèev Stefan Winkler Jozef Zajko As a composer Gliere followed the Russian romantic tradition, something that brought him official praise in 1948 when the music of Prokofiev and Shostakovich was condemned. In particular his ballet music proved popular. The Red Poppy, later known, to avoid the connotation of opium, as The Red Flower , satisfied political choreographic demands and became a well known part of ballet repertoire from 1926 onwards, while the later ballet The Bronze Horseman, completed in 1949, also retained its place in Soviet repertoire. The Red Poppy (Krasnj mak), with 1ibretto and original decor by M. Kurilko and choreography by Lev Lashchilin and Vasily Tikhomikov, was first staged at the Bolshoy Theatre on 14th June 1927, when Ekaterina Geltser danced Tao- Hoa and Aleksey Bulgatov the heroic Captain. Set in a Chinese port, the story of the ballet is simply told. The dancer Tao-Hoa falls in love with the captain of a Soviet cargo ship, to whom she gives a red poppy. Li-Shan-Fu, her manager, plots to kill the captain by having her give him poisoned tea, but she refuses. Later, in a coolie uprising, she saves the life of the captain and is later killed in a coo1ie uprising by a bullet from Li-Shan-Fu. She hands a red poppy to a little Chinese girl, as she dies, a sign of love and of freedom. Scope is given for divertissements in the second act, a dream-sequence, set in an opium den. Here Tao-Hoa sees a Golden Buddha, ancient goddesses, butterflies, birds and flowers. The ballet starts with an appropriate introduction, suggesting a Chinese setting with its pentatonic melodic material. A more ominous mood appears, suggesting the oppression to which the coolies, dock-workers are subjected, tyranny and suffering that will lead to their revolt. The dancing-girl Tao-Hoa enters, in a more lyrical atmosphere. The restaurant itself has a cosmopolitan clientele, represented in the various dances that follow, including a Boston Waltz and finally leading to the entrance of the Russian captain and the dance of his sailors. The love of the couple is established in Tao-Hoa's scene and variation, followed by a coolies' victory dance and a celebratory dance by the Russian sailors. The second act is set in an opium den. Here there is a dance of Chinese women and an Adagio for the four goddesses of ancient times. Tao-Hoa dreams of the Buddha, of the fabulous phoenix of legend and of the ship of her beloved. Reality returns with a Charleston and a dance in the restaurant, with preparations for the Chinese theatre, followed by an Umbre/1a Dance, a Puppet Dance, with xylophone, and a Chinese Acrobat Dance. The coolie uprising is plotted and in this the captain is only saved by the intervention of Tao-Hoa, allowing him to sail away with his men. In the aftermath Tao-Hoa is shot, to hand a red poppy to a little girl, as she dies. The flower, by its colour, symbo1izes communism, which will bring freedom to the oppressed, a sign of hope of abetter world, expressed in the well known Internationale, the Communist anthem. The Red Poppy, its name changed to The Red Flower in 1957, was greeted with some acclaim at its first staging. It seemed innovative, with a clear and acceptable political message, fulfilling the aims of the Soviet cultural establishment. Musically the libretto presented the composer with a number of problems. While the oriental setting provided an exotic background, enabling Gliere to make use of characteristic pentatonic melodies, there were inevitable juxtapositions of other musical material, associated with colonial oppression or with the gallant Russian sailors and their captain. It might, therefore, be suggested that the work as a whole lacks something of the unity that might have been found in a more traditional ballet. Whatever reservations might be held about the score, Gliere certainly won lasting success with The Red Poppy, of which excerpts, such as the Russian Sailors' Dance, have become very familiar. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTYsxmXPNTA