The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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... encounter " with Johnson . If I may quote from Rimbaud ( 435 ) : " The encounter with a de- ceased person is a special encounter ; it has an overt and a covert side , or rather a static , unchangeable " end " and a dynamic , variable ...
... encounter " with Johnson . If I may quote from Rimbaud ( 435 ) : " The encounter with a de- ceased person is a special encounter ; it has an overt and a covert side , or rather a static , unchangeable " end " and a dynamic , variable ...
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... encounter psychopathies as well as psychoses and neuroses . Type mixing ( hybridization ) leads to disintegration of corre- lations , that is to degeneration ; and therefore it increases the risk ( dependent on the mutual compensatory ...
... encounter psychopathies as well as psychoses and neuroses . Type mixing ( hybridization ) leads to disintegration of corre- lations , that is to degeneration ; and therefore it increases the risk ( dependent on the mutual compensatory ...
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... encounter the important sentence : " Few classical moralists are closer to Freud than Johnson , or have so uncanny a sense of what repression can mean " . After reading this promising sentence , however , one waits in vain for more ...
... encounter the important sentence : " Few classical moralists are closer to Freud than Johnson , or have so uncanny a sense of what repression can mean " . After reading this promising sentence , however , one waits in vain for more ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
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