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Cesare Lombroso. The Man of Genius
The Man of Genius
Table of Contents
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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Cesare Lombroso
Published by Good Press, 2021
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I refer those who wish to form an idea of the development reached by Broca’s centre in some of the brains of the Munich collection to Rüdinger’s monograph, and to the beautiful plates which accompany it. One remarks especially the enormous size and the numerous superficial folds at the foot of the left convolution in the jurist Wülfert, who was remarkable among other qualities for his great oratorical talent. On the other hand, the convolution is much reduced and very simple on the left, much developed in all its parts on the right, in the brain of the pathologist Buhl, a professor whose speech was clear and facile, but who was left-handed, or at all events ambidextrous. To these facts others may be added, showing the morphological complexity of Broca’s convolution in distinguished men; in the brains, for instance, of various men of science, described and figured by R. Wagner.[34] Among these was the illustrious geometrician, Gauss: compared with Gauss’s brain that of an artisan called
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