The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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... course of Johnson's life need not be described again ; and I have therefore considered it superfluous to add a biographical part to this book . I shall refer to relevant passages in the classical bio- graphies if necessary . A literary ...
... course of Johnson's life need not be described again ; and I have therefore considered it superfluous to add a biographical part to this book . I shall refer to relevant passages in the classical bio- graphies if necessary . A literary ...
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... course along unusual , as a rule unfavourable routes and the now pathological defence produces an inner division of the personality - a disintegration which entails the loss of the * In this connection it is of no consequence to point ...
... course along unusual , as a rule unfavourable routes and the now pathological defence produces an inner division of the personality - a disintegration which entails the loss of the * In this connection it is of no consequence to point ...
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... course not without significance ) . Johnson continued his discourse : " It may be considered as the canker life , that destroys its vigour , and checks its improve- ment , that creeps on with hourly depredations , and taints and ...
... course not without significance ) . Johnson continued his discourse : " It may be considered as the canker life , that destroys its vigour , and checks its improve- ment , that creeps on with hourly depredations , and taints and ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
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