title: [Smerdjakoff--the epileptic decline of existence].
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.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tellenbach
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008093:Literature, Modern; D008297:Male; D008513:Medicine in Literature; D012649:Self Concept; D012931:Social Environment; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*
vernacular_title: Smerdjakoff--die epileptogene Erniedrigung des Daseins.