Index

Abrams, M. H., 23, 230n

admiration, 12, 20, 27, 29, 39, 41, 77, 8384, 99, 103, 130, 149, 163, 167, 171, 177, 207, 213, 21516, 226

adolescence, 65, 147, 162, 184, 188

Aeschylus, 8184, 86

aesthetic, 2223, 28, 34, 92, 121, 127, 148, 151, 153

aesthetics, 56, 15, 19, 23, 48, 91

ailments, 94, 11617, 195. See also diagnosis

aliénation, 91, 96, 106, 11011, 205, 237n

alienists, 97, 99, 106, 272

Allegri, Gregorio, 17071

Alletz, Édouard, 6263, 68, 8586

Altmann, Georges, 186, 192

Ampère, André-Marie, 181

Andreasen, Nancy C., 248n

androgyny, 145

anomaly, 137, 164, 206

Arendt, Hannah, 21214, 21618

Aristotle (pseudo-), 812, 14, 21, 93, 95, 108, 161, 207, 22829

Baillet, Adrien, 16566, 168

Balayé, Simone, 241n

Balzac, Honoré de, 80, 95, 12122, 12729, 13645, 14748, 150, 157, 164, 178, 242n

Barthes, Roland, 184, 192, 195202, 204, 211, 213, 220, 222

Bate, Jonathan, 5

Battersby, Christine, 6, 125, 240n

Batteux, Charles, 5, 2425, 27, 3334, 37

Baudelaire, Charles, 92, 110, 138, 163, 172, 219

Beauchâteau, le petit, 186

Beauvoir, Simone de, 203

Beckett, Samuel, 192, 197

Becq, Annie, 230n

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 83, 8586

Bénichou, Paul, 81, 234n

Benzi, Roberto, 185, 188

Besser, Gretchen R., 139, 242n

Binet, Alfred, 7, 173, 17582, 189, 195

Blanchard, Pierre, 16566, 168

Blanchot, Maurice, 183, 204, 2067, 20912, 222, 226, 248n, 249n

Bloch, Dr. A. M., 119

Boileau, Nicolas, 4, 23, 47, 220

Bonald, Louis-Gabriel-Ambroise, vicomte de, 71, 7374, 129

Bonnet, Charles, 21, 231n

Bossuet, Jacques-Bénigne, 55, 164

Bouhours, Dominique, 51

Braque, Georges, 224

Breton, André, 184, 18890, 196

Broca, Paul, 17778

Broussais, François-Joseph-Victor, 113

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de, 41, 61

Byron, Lord, 7172, 74, 136

Caboche-Demerville, Jules, 167

calculating boys, 17778, 18082

Callander, Margaret, 249n

Carpentier, Émilie, 16870

Carrière, Dr. Édouard, 116

Cave, Terence, 227n

Cervantes, Miguel de, 6, 8283

Cézanne, Paul, 148, 243n

Chapsal, Madeleine, 188

Charcot, Jean-Martin, 17880

charlatans, 11, 14, 219, 224. See also imposture

Chateaubriand, François René, 47, 5457, 59, 61, 63, 65, 68, 71, 7579, 11718, 129, 136, 162

Chatterton, Thomas, 6366, 104, 129, 143, 162, 235n, 237

Chênedollé, Charles de, 53, 6162, 68, 178, 233n

Chénier, André, 6465, 143

childhood, 40, 63, 101, 148, 155, 16166, 168, 170, 172, 178, 181, 185, 189, 196, 19899, 200, 202. See also infancy; youth

children, 6, 15, 49, 77, 105, 146, 15455, 157, 16178, 181, 185, 187, 189, 19192, 195, 198, 200202

Cicero, 2

Cixous, Hélène, 204, 21926

Claverie, Joseph, 205

Cocteau, Jean, 18486, 188, 200

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 49

Colet, Louise, 16871, 192, 244n

Colette, 156, 192, 21218, 222

Comte, Auguste, 1056

Condillac, Étienne Bonnot de, 45, 8, 1921, 2930, 37, 42, 5253, 91, 97, 99

Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de, 1920

Copernicus, 61

Corneille, Pierre, 5, 26, 68, 170

Correggio, Antonio Allegri da, 168, 170

counterfeiting. See imposture

Courbet, Gustave, 15354

creativity, 1, 34, 89, 21, 3033, 4041, 5556, 59, 61, 63, 70, 9394, 9799, 108, 112, 12627, 131, 135, 13738, 141, 146, 14851, 15557, 164, 174, 176, 189, 204, 206, 20910, 218, 224

Cuvier, Georges, 127

Dacier, Anne, 168

daemon, 13, 31, 100103, 206. See also demon

D’Alembert, Jean le Rond, 1920, 22

Dali, Salvador, 224

Dante, 6, 56, 8184, 86

Dase, Zacharias, 178

Daudet, Alphonse, 151

deformity, 137, 178

degeneracy, 105, 114, 122

Delacroix, Eugène, 86, 140, 148, 163

Delcroix, Victor, 16869, 171

delirium, 1047, 110

dementia praecox, 207

demon, 31, 96, 99101, 112, 114, 206. See also daemon

depression. See melancholy

Derrida, Jacques, 1, 4, 7, 161, 204, 21921, 22526

Descaves, Lucette, 187, 200

Deschanel, Émile, 110, 114, 11617, 121

diagnosis, 91, 99, 101, 111, 116, 12022, 141, 157, 17576, 189, 207, 21011

Diamandi, Pericles, 17778, 181

Diderot, Denis, 5, 19, 21, 2425, 28, 3132, 3543, 93, 125, 127, 141, 146, 212, 228n, 229n

Dieckmann, Herbert, 5, 232n

Domenichino, 129

Dowbiggin, Ian R., 237n, 239n

Drouet, Minou, 7, 18392, 195202, 2067, 211

Dryden, John, 95

Dubos, Abbé, 45, 19, 21, 2428, 30, 32, 34, 37, 41, 9293, 162

Duras, Mme de, 136

Edgeworth, Maria, 133, 136

education, 10, 6263, 6869, 81, 103, 143, 168, 17578, 18182, 191, 200, 238n

Einstein, Albert, 182, 19598, 201, 224, 247n

Eliot, George, 133

embodiment, 3, 93, 99, 116, 184

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 49, 81

Empedocles, 10

England, 56, 49, 55, 58, 60, 62, 86

enthusiasm, 3, 10, 14, 38, 42, 56, 59, 62, 70, 72, 84, 105, 108, 133. See also frenzy; inspiration

epilepsy, 107, 11314, 121

Erasmus, 83

Escousse, Victor, 65, 234n

esprit, 2, 20, 25, 29, 3132, 3435, 38, 56, 62, 94, 77, 116, 125. See also intellect; wit

Esquirol, Étienne, 9192, 109, 112, 141, 228n, 237n, 238n

Euripides, 28

exemplarity, 161, 165, 213

fame, 41, 6162, 64, 7172, 74, 99, 12931, 133, 135, 164, 167, 185, 241n

Ferré, Léo, 184

Ficino, Marsilio, 9, 22, 93

Flaubert, Gustave, 170

Fleury, Maurice de, 11617, 119, 12122

Flourens, Pierre, 114, 116

Foa, Eugénie, 16768

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bouyer de, 23, 230n

forgery, 85, 186. See also imposture

fraud. See imposture

frenzy, 3, 1011, 24, 1089, 149, 153. See also enthusiasm

Freud, Sigmund, 205, 208, 210, 217

Fréville, Anne-François Joachim, 165

Galileo, Galilei, 109

Gall, Franz Josef, 93

Galois, Évariste, 178

Galton, Francis, 119, 147

Gascoyne, David, 209, 249n

Gauss, Johann Carl Friedrich, 178, 181

Gautier, Théophile, 110

gender, 6, 109, 125, 127, 13233, 13536, 14445, 15556, 189, 212, 21617, 21821

genius: etymology of, 2, 13, 101, 108, 110, 140, 164; and femininity, 43, 117, 123, 12529, 133, 13637, 13941, 14245, 15054, 156, 16768, 204, 21220, 21718, 220, 123, 212, 215; measurement of, 7, 69, 119, 17375, 177, 179, 181, 187, 199, 207; medical approach to, 9, 43, 66, 91100, 1024, 107, 11014, 11622, 126, 141, 144, 147, 149, 157, 175, 18990, 195, 207, 210; musical, 6, 25, 29, 96, 185, 187, 196; national, 56, 15, 49, 5155, 5764, 6768, 8687, 101, 128, 166, 185, 220, 222; tutelary, 23, 60, 125

Gerard, Alexander, 5

Gérard, François, 13334

Germany, 36, 9, 48, 53, 5860, 61, 86, 92, 138, 175, 2057

Gide, André, 214

Gilbert, Nicolas Joseph Florent, 6465

Giono, Jean, 188

girls, 16768, 173, 189, 192, 217

glory. See fame

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 6, 59, 136, 18687, 192, 227n

Gogh, Vincent van, 206

Goldstein, Jan, 237n, 238n, 242n

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules de, 87, 95, 147, 15051, 154

Goodden, Angelica, 234n, 240n

Gottsched, Johann Christoph, 5

Grauby, Françoise, 238n

Greimas, A.-J., 32, 196

Groethuysen, Bernard, 205, 208

Guérin, Pierre-Narcisse, 11718

hallucinations, 93, 9599, 100101, 1034, 110, 116, 168, 207, 238n

Hazlitt, William, 49

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 105

Heidegger, Martin, 206, 217

Helvétius, Claude-Adrien, 1921, 35, 38, 229

heredity, 94, 1046, 109, 11213, 119, 122, 14647, 149, 157, 178

Hobbes, Thomas, 97

Hölderlin, Friedrich, 20413

Homer, 11, 13, 28, 5657, 62, 68, 7879, 81, 83, 8586, 98, 168, 222, 224

Houdini, Harry, 180

Huarte, Juan, 2, 9, 22

Hugo, Victor, 6, 6772, 7587, 122, 129, 162, 18687, 209, 216

humorism, 3, 1011, 14, 2122, 93

hydrocephalus, 147

hypocondrie, 103. See also melancholy

illness, 91, 94, 99, 10607, 115, 118, 135, 137, 204, 207, 20910, 213, 222. See also ailments

imagination, 20, 2223, 2427, 3940, 42, 57, 59, 6566, 9294, 96100, 1089, 117, 12021, 126, 13132, 135, 140, 146, 16364, 183, 189, 196

imposture, 8, 1113, 23, 38, 179, 181, 18385, 186, 18890, 199202, 204, 219, 22226

Inaudi, Jacques, 17781, 192, 198

individual, 1, 10, 24, 30, 4041, 51, 5354, 57, 61, 63, 774, 76, 81, 83, 101, 112, 132, 166. See also uniqueness

infancy, 75, 17475, 191, 202, 21516

ingenium, 23, 13, 47, 51, 220

innovation, 19, 50, 91. See also invention

insanity, 8, 10, 23, 3839, 65, 92101, 99100, 1035, 10717, 12022, 138, 14142, 14581, 47, 149, 152, 178, 190, 20412, 243n

inspiration, 3, 913, 23, 25, 39, 4243, 49, 5657, 70, 72, 76, 79, 8284, 86, 9293, 97, 101, 109, 12526, 12830, 13637, 143, 14951, 15455, 163, 166, 168, 174, 185, 196, 199, 202, 220, 224, 229n

instruction, 48, 162, 175, 192, 197. See also education

intellect, 2, 57, 11, 15, 19, 29, 3132, 35, 38, 58, 61, 93, 9596, 1049, 11518, 12022, 126, 129, 136, 146, 17374, 17678, 181, 214. See also esprit

intelligence, 11, 2021, 34, 84, 98, 105, 111, 115, 117, 122, 137, 141, 146, 157, 170, 17377, 181, 189, 191, 195, 204

invention, 8, 1921, 26, 3031, 62, 64, 83, 98, 12627, 141, 175, 177, 199, 216, 218

Ion, 8, 1013, 40, 161, 22425

IQ, 7, 173, 195. See also intelligence

Italy, 2, 6, 49, 51, 53, 55, 5758, 62, 86, 12829, 135, 177

Jaffe, Kineret S., 5

Jaspers, Karl, 206, 210

journalism, 7, 69, 118, 183, 185, 18691, 192, 196, 200

Jouve, Pierre Jean, 20413, 222, 226, 249n

Julliard, René, 183, 18587, 191, 198

Juno, 2, 125

Kafka, Franz, 22223

Kant, Immanuel, 5, 8, 1115, 23, 3233, 35, 221

Keats, John, 64, 79

Kemp, Robert, 191, 246n

Kepler, Johannes, 61

Kivy, Peter, 161, 227n, 230n

Klein, Melanie, 156, 21214, 21618

Kleist, Heinrich von, 206

Klemperer, Otto, 222

Klibansky, Raymond, 228n, 237n

Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb, 60

Klossowksi, Pierre, 2056

Kris, Ernst, 161

Kristeva, Julia, 156, 204, 21219, 22122, 226

Kurz, Otto, 161

Kusch, Polykarp, 222

Labé, Louise, 168

Lacan, Jacques, 210

Lacroix, Albert, 146

La Harpe, Jean-François de, 4749

Lamartine, Alphonse de, 6775, 7879, 129, 191, 209, 235n

Lamennais, Hugues-Félicité Robert de, 69

La Salpêtrière, 140

Lauvrière, Émile, 91

Lefkowitz, Mary, 244n

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 54, 60

Lélut, Louis-Francisque, 91, 94104, 108, 110, 112, 114, 116, 168, 208, 238n

lesions, 94, 97, 1045, 147, 207

Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 5, 60

Le Tourneur, Pierre, 5

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 6, 196

Linnaeus, Carl, 169

Lippi, Fra’ Filippo, 168, 17071

Lloyd, Rosemary, 244n

Locke, John, 5, 97

Lolita, 185

Lombroso, Cesare, 9, 93, 105, 114, 118, 147

Longinus, 4, 23, 161

Loyola, Ignatius, 101

Lucretius, 84

Lunatic. See insanity

Luther, Martin, 101

lypémanie, 238

Machiavelli, Nicolas, 58

madness. See insanity

Mallet-Joris, Francine, 186

Manet, Édouard, 243n

mania, 10, 108, 205, 207

Maracus, the Syracusan, 10, 207

Marmontel, Jean-François, 19, 26, 2932

martyrdom, 6869, 75, 7879, 201

maternity, 57, 59, 14243, 149, 151, 168, 21417

mathematics, 6, 52, 57, 93, 116, 169, 17779, 181, 185, 18788, 19798, 224

Matoré, Georges, 32

Maudsley, Henry, 115, 239n

Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau de, 52, 178

melancholy, 810, 31, 58, 9394, 97, 103, 2068, 249, 238n

Mercier, Louis-Sébastien, 19, 31, 3334, 231

Meschonnic, Henri, 85, 236n

Michelangelo, 55, 81, 83

Michelet, Jules, 63, 68, 8586, 122, 162, 202

Milner, Max, 243n

Milton, John, 5657, 68, 118, 222

mimesis, 19, 2129, 3133, 36, 3940, 92

Mirandola, Pico della, 164, 166

Mitterand, Henri, 240n, 242n

Molière, 5, 24, 29, 82, 170

Mondeux, Henri, 178

Montcalm, Candiac de, 164

Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat, 41, 5758, 61

morbidity, 91, 95, 1047, 11112, 146, 156

Moreau (de Tours), Jacques-Joseph, 94, 10414, 116, 118, 141, 14647, 208, 242n

Morel, Bénédict-Auguste, 105

Morrissette, Bruce, 246n

Moses, 67, 74, 77, 84, 86, 143

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1, 34, 16971, 188

Muhammad, 101

muse, 1213, 14, 72, 7879, 109, 128, 150

Musil, Robert, 19596

Musset, Alfred de, 122

Nabokov, Vladimir, 185

Napoleon, 49, 55, 58, 6062, 69, 72, 82, 86, 143, 241n

Nares, Robert, 100

nervousness, 94, 105, 1078, 112, 11718, 14648, 153, 163, 174

neurasthenia, 117, 122

neuroanatomy, 93, 107, 195

neuroglia, 195

neuropathy, 104, 107, 11618, 12022

neuroscience, 93, 114, 11617, 17778, 195, 198, 121, 204, 210, 248n

neurosis, 1047, 109, 111, 11314, 116, 14648, 205

newspapers. See journalism

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 2067

Nitzsche, Jane Chance, 2

Noailles, Anna de, 185

Nodier, Charles, 64

norms, 19, 31, 97, 115, 122, 129, 173, 17576, 179, 207, 213

Nougaret, Pierre-Jean-Baptiste, 16466

novels, 6, 15, 24, 28, 50, 82, 123, 12629, 13236, 13841, 14351, 153, 15556, 18485, 205, 21415, 222

novelist, 25, 2829, 11718, 121, 12627, 135, 13738, 140, 145, 14749, 157, 175, 184, 210, 214

Nykrog, Per, 142, 242n

originality, 1, 3, 7, 9, 1314, 2527, 3031, 33, 3940, 55, 70, 76, 131, 140, 156, 164, 174, 221, 230n

Otway, Thomas, 58

painters, 25, 26, 2830, 41, 52, 96, 121, 128, 133, 14754, 163, 17071, 224

paranoia, 207

Parinaud, André, 18990, 246n, 247n

Parnassus, 53, 70

Pascal, Blaise, 55, 5758, 9497, 99100, 1023, 114, 127, 144, 15657, 164, 166, 16869, 171, 185, 18788, 192, 198, 208, 220

pathography, 96, 100

pathology, 810, 9199, 10112, 11516, 120, 122, 14649, 157, 199, 208

Paulhan, Jean, 188

Pausanius, 105

Pauwels, Louis, 190

pedagogy. See education

pédologie, 175

Perez, Bernard, 175

performance, 3637, 39, 4143, 93, 12930, 134, 17172, 17781, 18688, 192, 200201, 224

Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista, 41

Perras, Jean-Alexandre, 227n, 228n, 230n, 231n

Perrault, Charles, 23, 228n

Perrein, Michèle, 191, 200, 246n

Petrarch, 58

Phidias, 83

philosopher, 11, 20, 22, 27, 40, 4748, 9799, 100101, 103, 115, 121, 164, 205

philosophy, 56, 9, 1112, 19, 22, 25, 27, 3738, 40, 4849, 56, 58, 61, 74, 91, 97, 99101, 104, 108, 126, 142, 153, 204, 218

phrenology, 93

phrenopathy, 105, 14647

physician, 9192, 96, 101, 111, 127, 238

physiology, 11, 2122, 91, 9395, 99100, 1045, 107, 11416, 119, 12122, 125, 175, 178, 195, 19798

Pia, Pascal, 185, 187

Piaget, Jean, 189

Picasso, Pablo, 224

Pigeaud, Jackie, 228n, 229n, 238n

Pindar, 129

Pinel, Philippe, 9192, 94, 96, 98, 110, 112, 205, 238n

Plato, 3, 814, 24, 57, 68, 93, 98, 103, 109, 161

Pliny, 61, 166

Plutarch, 100, 103

Poe, Edgar Allan, 91, 163

poetry, 4, 912, 2324, 2627, 3132, 40, 4950, 5556, 59, 61, 65, 6771, 7380, 82, 8586, 9293, 104, 115, 118, 127, 134, 150, 16364, 172, 18388, 19092, 195, 198201, 20511, 214, 224

poets, 6, 1012, 23, 2526, 28, 30, 42, 56, 58, 6379, 81, 86, 9192, 96, 9899, 109, 115, 118, 12930, 13740, 16164, 16667, 172, 18384, 186, 188, 196, 19899, 202, 2047, 20811

Poincaré, Henri, 116, 178

possession, 3, 12, 42, 190, 202, 227n

posterity, 4, 100, 133, 206

Poussin, Nicolas, 29, 147

precocity, 57, 75, 138, 140, 159, 161, 16466, 168, 17173, 175, 17880, 18388, 195, 198, 247n

procreation, 2, 146, 148, 151, 15457, 216, 242

prodigies, 4, 7, 159, 161, 16465, 167, 16873, 17583, 18589, 19192, 196, 198202, 204, 207

Prometheus, 72, 77, 78, 84, 211

Proust, Marcel, 115, 192, 214, 246n, 247n

psychiatry, 91, 115, 122, 208, 210

psychoanalysis, 205, 20712, 214, 21618

psychology, 67, 15, 49, 1046, 11112, 11517, 11822, 146, 157, 161, 17378, 189

psychosis, 2045, 210, 215

Pushkin, Alexander, 6

Pygmalion, 152

Pythagoras, 83

Rabelais, François, 8283

Racine, Jean, 5, 26, 29, 41, 48, 5556, 61, 166, 186

Radiguet, Raymond, 18486

Rameau, Jean-Philippe, 37, 41, 171

Raphael, 55

readers, 6, 1214, 2325, 2829, 3237, 4143, 48, 5960, 74, 103, 105, 114, 117, 126, 133, 13536, 139, 161, 16568, 17071, 199, 202, 222, 225, 227n

recognition, 6, 12, 14, 20, 29, 33, 3536, 48, 6061, 6468, 7071, 7476, 8284, 86, 93, 101, 112, 127, 12931, 13637, 13940, 143, 150, 217, 21921, 224

Rembrandt, 83

Rémond, Antoine, 117

Renaissance, 2, 49, 161

retardation, mental 1047, 141, 146, 17476, 175, 178, 187, 191

Réveillé-Parise, Joseph-Henri, 94, 112, 11415, 11718, 237n

Reverchon-Jouve, Blanche, 2089

Richardson, Samuel, 2425, 28, 3738, 42, 127

Rigoli, Juan, 237n, 238n

Rimbaud, Arthur, 18486, 18889

Rivarol, Antoine, comte de, 5254, 59, 61, 65, 68, 74, 220, 233n

Robb, Graham, 235n

Romanticism, 6, 15, 23, 25, 49, 67, 7576, 111, 137, 162, 178, 206, 211

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 24, 35, 93, 97, 12526, 136, 228, 231n

Rousseaux, André, 188

Rozerot, Jeanne, 157, 240n

rules, 8, 1314, 23, 25, 2931, 41, 47, 82, 100, 129, 131, 140, 202, 217

Russia, 6, 247n

Sagan, Françoise, 18586

Sainte-Beuve, Charles-Augustin, 48, 7576, 78, 136, 232n, 233n

Saint-Hilaire, Geoffroy, 127

Sappho, 129

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 184, 188, 19596, 199204, 206, 213, 220, 22223

Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, 48

Schiller, Johann Friedrich von, 60, 136

schizophrenia, 207, 20911

Schmidt, Jochen, 5, 232n

Schmidt-Dengler, Wendelin, 5

Schopenhauer, Arthur, 48, 95, 162, 202

Schwab, Johann Christoph, 52

science, 9, 13, 20, 30, 57, 62, 9293, 9596, 98, 1078, 112, 11516, 11820, 138, 148, 12526, 156, 168, 17475, 17779, 189, 195, 204, 207, 210

Scotus, Duns, 213

sculpture, 22, 49, 96, 105, 121, 151

Séailles, Gabriel, 11415, 174, 239n

Ségur, Sophie Rostopchine, comtesse de, 165

sensibility, 21, 23, 25, 2728, 3132, 3436, 39, 59, 125, 127, 13132, 231n

sensitivity, 27, 94, 105, 1078, 117, 119, 121, 130, 132, 140, 145, 163, 208

Sévigné, Mme de, 136

Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl, 5

Shakespeare, William, 56, 8186, 132, 186, 205, 212, 222, 236n

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 236n

Shuttleworth, Sally, 245n

Sicaud, Sabine, 185, 190

singularity, 15, 4041, 101, 146, 21314, 21618, 22021

Siouffi, Gilles, 233

Sirotkina, Irina, 247n

Smith, Logan Pearsall, 5

Socrates, 1012, 40, 9497, 99103, 105, 110, 112, 114, 208, 224

solitude, 39, 5960, 6769, 75, 7578, 86, 96, 112, 141, 170, 191, 202, 209, 214

Sophocles, 28

Soviet, 195

Spain, 6, 49, 51, 53

Spassky, Boris, 182

Staël, Madame de, 5762, 6768, 92, 97, 12536, 140, 14243, 145, 148, 157, 164, 234n, 240n, 241n

Stein, Gertrude, 15657, 22324, 250n

Strindberg, August, 206

suffering, 10, 28, 42, 54, 64, 68, 7071, 78, 93, 9596, 100101, 106, 108, 111, 117, 121, 127, 13033, 13536, 140, 145, 147, 152, 15556, 163, 190, 202, 223, 234n, 235n. See also martyrdom, unhappiness

Surrealism, 196, 209

Surville, Laure, 240n

Swedenborg, Emanuel, 143, 206

Sybil, 129, 18990

Taine, Hippolyte, 115, 174

talent, 3, 89, 21, 2930, 32, 3940, 4748, 5254, 65, 72, 76, 99100, 125, 12836, 143, 15051, 153, 161, 16465, 167, 17173, 17779, 181, 183, 18588, 19092, 196, 202, 224

Tasso, Torquato, 57, 61, 68, 97, 132, 140, 20607, 213, 235n

taste, 14, 21, 25, 2933, 38, 40, 4748, 55, 70, 126, 166, 168

Terdiman, Richard, 247n

Terman, Lewis M., 173, 189

Thompson, James, 58

Tissot, Samuel Auguste, 93

Toklas, Alice B., 157, 223

Touchard, Mme, 166, 168

Toulouse, Édouard, 11622, 127, 148, 157, 174, 178, 240n

unhappiness, 54, 60, 64, 65, 91, 132, 144, 191. See also suffering

uniqueness, 8, 20, 30, 57, 83, 111, 132, 150, 177, 209, 217, 224, 216. See also individual

Vallery-Radot, Louis Pasteur, 183, 188, 200

Vinci, Leonardo da, 41, 98, 205

vulnerability, 12, 96, 108, 133, 137, 145, 151

Wagner, Richard, 163

wit, 2, 25, 31, 52, 56, 59, 82, 95, 126, 174. See also esprit; intellect

women, 2, 1112, 19, 41, 49, 66, 1089, 12531, 13537, 14244, 146, 15057, 164, 170, 183, 18687, 189, 204, 212, 21518, 240n. See also genius, femininity

Wordsworth, William, 64

Wunderkinder, 196. See also prodigies

Xenophon, 103

youth, 7, 6465, 69, 77, 144, 14950, 16163, 16570, 18486, 188, 205. See also childhood; children; infancy

Zacharias, 178

Zola, Émile, 95, 105, 11621, 12728, 14651, 15357, 178, 207, 240n, 242n

Zweig, Stefan, 206, 211