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pathographic en · ADJ

Etymology

From pathography + -ic.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Relating to pathography.
   • Although this perspective of limits of understanding is very fascinating there emerges out of it a constant problem for the pathographic viewpoint. 2013, Giovanni Stanghellini, Thomas Fuchs, One Century of Karl Jaspers' General Psychopathology:
   • In the arts alone, Raphael, Rembrandt, Jackson Pollock, Picasso, and John Lennon were all given the pathographic treatment in the later eighties—the latter two in notorious biographies. 2016, Tom O'Brien, The Screening of America:
   • At the same time Hildebrandt's attack on all pathographic methods that look for nothing but morbid symptoms or simply assume the existence of such symptoms when convenient, is masterful only in so far as it deals with the period before Nietzsche's collapse. 1931, Erich F. Podach, The Madness of Nietzsche, page 62:

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