The Man of Genius
by Cesare Lombroso
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About this eBook
- Author
- Lombroso, Cesare, 1835-1909
- Credits
- Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- BF: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Psychology, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis
- Subject
- Genius and mental illness
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 50539
- Release Date
- November 23, 2015
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE Man of Genius .
- 2.PREFACE.
- 3.CONTENTS. — THE MAN OF GENIUS.
- 4.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.
- 5.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.
- 6.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.
- 7.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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