Degeneration

aberration activity æsthetic appear artistic association of ideas atavism attention awaken Baudelaire beautiful become Bernick brain called Catulle Mendès cell centres colour consciousness criminal degenerate deranged disease echolalia ego-maniac egoism emotion Esseintes evil excited existence expression external world eyes fact feelings of pleasure French German give healthy Hedda Gabler Hence Hjalmar human hysteria hysterical Ibsen imagination imbecile imitation impressions impulses individual insane instinct intellectual Joséphin Péladan Kreutzer Sonata latter living Lombroso mania Maurice Barrès means megalomania mental mind moral movement mystic nature nerves nervous never Nietzsche Nietzsche's novels observation organism painter painting Paris Parnassians Parsifal Paul Bourget peculiar perceive perception persons phenomena phenomenon Philistine picture poems poet poetry pre-Raphaelites present reader recognised representations Rosmer Rosmersholm says sense sexual society soul suffering symbol Symbolists Théophile Gautier things thought tion Tolstoi true unconscious Wagner whole wishes woman words Zola