Vincent van Gogh presumably suffered a mental illness of some kind, or possibly a persobnality disorder, but what if we was a womb twin survivor? He was very taken up with the cycle of life: he painted the sower, and the reaper. he painted wheat fields and connected the fruitfulness of the wheat to death. He sat in a wheatfield in full fruit and shot himself - he was himself at his most fruitful and then he died at his own hand.
It is common among womb twin survivors to think about death a lot, even form a young age, and suicidal feelings in young womb twin survivors are also common. A womb tun survivor is the survivor of a twin pregnancy but one twin dies in the womb, leaving a sole survivor who is fuelled with grief and pain that has something to do with loneliness and death but defies explanation. Such feelings haunt womb twin survivors, until they can at last find an explanation for their feelings and begin to come to terms with this loss.
It is interesting that Vincent had such a close relationship with his brother Theo, who he treated just like a twin, and it is also interesting that the method of suicide he chose was to shoot himself in the stomach not the head, so he was able to walk home and let everybody know that he would die spoon, and then the could be there. To die in the arms of his brother would be like his Dream of the Womb revisited - here was unity and death, closeness and love and dying. Even to be alive was painful for Vincent. A tortured genius indeed.
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