Word: neurasthenia
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...itself. It is almost as if Kafka set up the situation so he could write about the turmoil it caused him. He despised himself for still living at home with his mother and father, a bluff haberdasher whom Kafka attempted to blame for his neurasthenia. For the full treatment read Letter to His Father (Schocken Books, 1953), 45 pages of controlled rage, respect, affection and revulsion...
...played a shade too unctuously by James Earl Jones, who also lacks the quality of a steely, patient peasant finally coming into his own. Earle Hyman, on the other hand, succeeds as Madame Ra-nevskaya's billiards-obsessed brother Leonid. Hyman's portrayal of world-weary neurasthenia and narcotized memories of past luxury perfectly realizes one important aspect of the play...
Many of them had come to college healthy and eager to learn, but as a result of the five-year program, had developed eye trouble and neurasthenia...
Valley was a pharmacological and gynecological nightmare. Reader interest, soaring along on a series of drug ingestions, couplings and nervous breakdowns, finally hit an apogee with breast cancer. Love Machine lacks Valley's primitive vigor but equals its obsession with pathology: leukemia, gall-bladder trouble, heart disease, neurasthenia and nymphomania play important roles. One man is terrified of losing his genitalia; another surrenders them gladly in order to become a woman. The central character, a power-mad television executive with a superhuman capacity for vodka and coitus, is mysteriously incapable of love and marriage. The explanation is only...
After a few months in this "Bastille of steel," the child developed a violent temper and symptoms of neurasthenia-whenever she heard a piece of displeasing music, she quietly vomited. But she also developed a precocious passion to become "a genius"-if possible, a poetic genius. In 1923, riots attended her first public recitation of a clamjamfry called...