Creativity and Autism Spectrum Conditions: A Hypothesis on Lewis Carroll

L'articolo fornisce un’analisi approfondita per ciò che riguarda il rapporto tra le caratteristiche rivenute da Simon Baron Cohen nei racconti dei cosiddetti cervelli S (sistemici) e la produzione letteraria di Lewis Carroll.

The hypothesis formulated by Simon Baron-Cohen and his collaborators on the onset of autistic syndromes and their link with an excess of the so-called S brain is reflected in the work of Lewis Carroll, a formal logic and mathematics professor deeply inclined to visual and spatial descriptions, interested in affordances and systemic circuits, and devoid of empathic tendencies in creating his characters.