The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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Page 138
... occasions , Johnson had lived at the very edge of psychotic disintegration . " To Johnson , whose supreme enjoy- ment was ... occasion death " ( 32 , p . 579 ) . The last addition is very important . A neurotic would certainly not have ...
... occasions , Johnson had lived at the very edge of psychotic disintegration . " To Johnson , whose supreme enjoy- ment was ... occasion death " ( 32 , p . 579 ) . The last addition is very important . A neurotic would certainly not have ...
Page 186
... occasion to realize its own potentials . On several other occasions Johnson sets forth the principle of resistance . In Rambler 24 ( " that we see much numbers resolutely struggl- ing against nature , and contending for that which they ...
... occasion to realize its own potentials . On several other occasions Johnson sets forth the principle of resistance . In Rambler 24 ( " that we see much numbers resolutely struggl- ing against nature , and contending for that which they ...
Page 198
... occasion , with reference to the historian Knolles ( Rambler nr . 122 ) , he states about the latter's style ( " none of our writers can , in my opinion , justly contest the superiority of Knolles " ) that it is " pure , nervous ...
... occasion , with reference to the historian Knolles ( Rambler nr . 122 ) , he states about the latter's style ( " none of our writers can , in my opinion , justly contest the superiority of Knolles " ) that it is " pure , nervous ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
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