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 this element : that he expe- riences his mental disturbances as imposed upon himself " from outside " . On Easter day 1772 he thanks God " for the deliveran- ce which thou hast granted me from diseases of mind and body " ( 131 ...
... encounter this element : that he expe- riences his mental disturbances as imposed upon himself " from outside " . On Easter day 1772 he thanks God " for the deliveran- ce which thou hast granted me from diseases of mind and body " ( 131 ...
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... encounter with Johnson as follows . " I was then a youth fresh from the university , and I had heard so much of Dr Johnson's awful manner that I felt quite afraid of meeting him . But his first address at once relieved me . ' Sir , I ...
... encounter with Johnson as follows . " I was then a youth fresh from the university , and I had heard so much of Dr Johnson's awful manner that I felt quite afraid of meeting him . But his first address at once relieved me . ' Sir , I ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
Copyright | |
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