The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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Page 90
... experiences of derealization , with " strange oblivion " and lapses of memory , " insensibility " and " heaviness " but without much anxiety or agitation . We might consider the ... experience the anomaly of 90 THE MEASURE AND THE CHOICE.
... experiences of derealization , with " strange oblivion " and lapses of memory , " insensibility " and " heaviness " but without much anxiety or agitation . We might consider the ... experience the anomaly of 90 THE MEASURE AND THE CHOICE.
Page 141
... experiences of inner discipline . It was not neurotic defence that forced him to self - control . His self - control ... experience , even apparently serene pronouncements springing from suffering and despair " ( 236 , p . 92 ) . From a ...
... experiences of inner discipline . It was not neurotic defence that forced him to self - control . His self - control ... experience , even apparently serene pronouncements springing from suffering and despair " ( 236 , p . 92 ) . From a ...
Page 165
... experience to read these essays , which we know to have been written in great haste and in a single session , with the printer waiting for the copy , so to speak . For these essays were written in a style which impresses us as well ...
... experience to read these essays , which we know to have been written in great haste and in a single session , with the printer waiting for the copy , so to speak . For these essays were written in a style which impresses us as well ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
Copyright | |
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