The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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Page 55
... conditions : the hereditary and the acquired condition . They have influenced and usually potentiated each other . Johnson's anomalies of mood cannot be ascribed exclusively to epilepsy . The degenerative disposition , too , is ...
... conditions : the hereditary and the acquired condition . They have influenced and usually potentiated each other . Johnson's anomalies of mood cannot be ascribed exclusively to epilepsy . The degenerative disposition , too , is ...
Page 108
... condition as " compulsive neurosis " . The source of his assertions about Johnson ( that he suffered from ejaculatio praecox , was a nailbiter , etc. ) remains obscure . I have nowhere found any mention of these things . As I pointed ...
... condition as " compulsive neurosis " . The source of his assertions about Johnson ( that he suffered from ejaculatio praecox , was a nailbiter , etc. ) remains obscure . I have nowhere found any mention of these things . As I pointed ...
Page 147
... condition that , jointly with other conditions , leads to new stimulating vital potentialities , to self - expansion , self - realization and self - justifi- cation . Only in this way can man attain the fullness of his poten- tialities ...
... condition that , jointly with other conditions , leads to new stimulating vital potentialities , to self - expansion , self - realization and self - justifi- cation . Only in this way can man attain the fullness of his poten- tialities ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
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