Citation

Tellenbach H. Z. Klin. Psychol. Psychopathol. Psychother. 1990; 38(4): 369-375.

Vernacular Title

Smerdjakoff--die epileptogene Erniedrigung des Daseins.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, Verlag Karl Alber)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2087851

Abstract

Since long the main interest of psychiatric clinical research has been the determination of character-changes in Janz' typus of the sleep-epileptic, who shows a specific inclination to what is low down, and therefrom calls him and ties him up. Smerdjakoff is this epileptic-prototype. He is linked to what is low down. His height is only pseudo-height. His crisis consists mainly in the threat of being dragged away from the height he claims, i.e. when he deteriorates to mediocracy. Then sadism in its typical aggression shows up--which converts the epileptic in one of the most dangerous psychotic persons.

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