Inside the Mind and Music of Kurt Cobain
Inside the Mind and Music of Kurt Cobain
“Peace, love, and empathy,” were strangely enough the last words written on the late Kurt Cobain’s suicide note before pointed his six pound .20 gauge Remington shotgun into his mouth and pulled the trigger. Cobain ended his own life on April 5, 1994 after taking enough heroin to kill three people. The big question is how could a person of such creativity and talent, not to mention fame and fortune, want to end their life? Kurt Cobain was a voice of a generation and has widely been hailed as the “John Lennon of his generation.” According to the Analytic theories, Jung would have regarded him as being both “ahead of his time” and in touch with a source of superior wisdom, the collective unconscious.
The Analytic theories identify the unconscious as the source of creativity, and the creative process consists of bringing this information into consciousness. They will be used in order to take a better look into the creative mind of Kurt Cobain and to identify how he dealt with feelings, values, motivations, and emotions in balancing internal and external elements and influences. Cobain’s disturbed childhood played a large role in his creative process in that the external forces greatly influenced his internal state.
Kurt Cobain was an energetic, talented and creative child who liked to draw and sing Beatles tunes. By the time he was eight years old his parents were already divorced. This was an emotional holocaust for Kurt and no other single event in his life had more of an effect on the shaping of his personality. Kurt could not understand the reason for the divorce and he, like most children who go through this, thought it was his fault. He kept his anguish and grief inside rather than outwardly expressing it. He even proceeded to write on his bedroom wall: I hate mom, I hate dad, dad hates mom, mom hates dad. It simply makes you want to be so sad.
Kurt was also affected physically by his parents divorce. He was not eating enough and by age eight he had to be put into the hospital for malnutrition. This was the start of a stomach condition that would plague him throughout the rest of his life. Kurt...