Étienne-Jean Georget  

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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
The monomanies series by Géricault

Étienne-Jean Georget (1795 - 1828) was French doctor, a student of Jean Esquirol and Philippe Pinel. After finishing his studies in Tours he practiced and the famous Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital. He made contributions through the study of psychosis and psychopathology but his work primarily survives through the ten paintings (only five still extant) that French painter Théodore Géricault made of some of his patients who were suffering from what was then known as "monomania". The five surviving paintings, from what was reportedly a series of 10, include a kleptomaniac, a woman with a mania for gambling, a military obsessive and a victim of envy.


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