Pascal's Syndrome: Positivism as a Symptom of Depression and Mania
Abstract. The present study applies results and methods of psychobiology to intellectual history. Pascal's syndrome is a depressive neurosis associated with morbid effects of scientific certainty. The syndrome is characterized by self-mortification and conversion experience that represses distr...
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Wiley-Blackwell
1986
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Zygon
Year: 1986, Volume: 21, Issue: 3, Pages: 319-351 |
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