The work by Prince Korab. Analysis of the writings of a paranoiac
Salem, G.; Korab d'Orzeszko
Schweizer Archiv für Neurologie Neurochirurgie und Psychiatrie 123(1): 107-139
1978
ISSN/ISBN: 0036-7273 PMID: 366739 Document Number: 129320
This note concerns the analysis of a work written in the early years of the century by a discredited Polish nobleman. The book, pseudo-encyclopaedic in character and didactic in tone is cast presumably in the mould of the "Guide to the Perplexed". Among other traits it reflects a paranoiac personality. In the course of his observations the author of the article raises the question of pathography in general. After a historical and epistemological survey of the working methods employed in this field, he suggests a new critical attitude which claims to be "multi-disciplinary". Taking its stand on several different points of view - philosophical, literary, linguistic, psychodynamic. The analysis of the book by Prince Korab serves to illustrate this "non-reductive" form of approach.