The Man of Genius
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The idea that genius was a special morbid condition had indeed often occurred to me, but I had always repelled it; and besides, without a sure experimental basis, ideas to-day do not count. Like still-born children, they appear but for a moment, to disappear at once. I had been enabled to discover in genius various characters of degeneration which are the foundation and the sign of nearly all forms of congenital mental abnormality, but the exaggerated extension which was at that time given to theories of degeneration, and still more the vague and inexact character of that conception, had repel...
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- THE Man of Genius.
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
- THE MAN OF GENIUS.
- PART I. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF GENIUS.
- CHAPTER I. History of the Problem.
- CHAPTER II. Genius and Degeneration.
- CHAPTER III. Latent Forms of Neurosis and Insanity in Genius.
- CHAPTER IV. Genius and Insanity.
- PART II. THE CAUSES OF GENIUS.
- CHAPTER I. Meteorological Influences on Genius.
- CHAPTER II. Climatic Influences on Genius.
- CHAPTER III. The Influence of Race and Heredity on Genius and Insanity.
- CHAPTER IV. The Influence of Disease on Genius.
- CHAPTER V. The Influence of Civilization and of Opportunity.
- PART III. GENIUS IN THE INSANE.
- CHAPTER I. Insane Genius in Literature.
- CHAPTER II. Art in the Insane.
- CHAPTER III. Literary and Artistic Mattoids.
- CHAPTER IV. Political and Religious Lunatics and Mattoids.
- PART IV. SYNTHESIS. THE DEGENERATIVE PSYCHOSIS OF GENIUS.
- CHAPTER I. Characteristics of Insane Men of Genius.
- CHAPTER II. Analogy of Sane to Insane Genius.
- CHAPTER III. The Epileptoid Nature of Genius.
- CHAPTER IV. Sane Men of Genius.
- CHAPTER V. CONCLUSIONS.
- APPENDIX. POETRY AND THE INSANE.
- INDEX.
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