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Degeneration, Decline & Race
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Bénédict-Augustin Morel
Treatise on Physical, Intellectual and Moral Degeneration
(1857)
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“When the insane temperament has been developed in its most marked form, we must
acknowledge that the hereditary predisposition has assumed the character of deterioration of
race, and that the individual represents the beginning of a degeneracy which, if not checked
by favourable circumstances, will go on increasing from generation to generation and end finally in
the extreme degeneracy of idiocy. With the occurrence of idiocy there is happily the extinction
of the degenerate variety, for with it come impotence and sterility.”
(Maudsley, Responsibility in Mental Disease, 1874 p.50)
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Degenerate “Stigmata”• PHYSICAL: unequal development of
two halves of the face and cranium, imperfections in the ear, squint eyes, harelips, a wolf-face, and irregularities of the teeth, stuttering, tremors, or tics, hermaphrodism, etc.
• MENTAL: feeble-minded, idiots, or the eccentric, precocious, with one-sided talents, or the morally delinquent.
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History of “Moral Insanity”:Rationality more or less intact, but
moral or feeling capacity impaired—asocial, often linked to criminal behavior
• (1801) Phillippe Pinel: “mania without delirium”
• (1835) James Cowles Prichard: coined term “moral insanity”
• (1876) Henry Maudsley: “moral insanity” or “moral imbecility” linked to degeneration
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HENRY MAUDSLEY(1835-1918)founder of
Maudsley Hospital
“the Borderland”
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Max Nordau (1849-1923)
Degeneration (1892)
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CESARE LOMBROSO
(1835-1909)
Genius and Insanity (1864)
L'uomo delinquente (Criminal Man) (1876)
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THE DEGENERATE GENIUS
Lombroso, The Man of Genius, 3rd. ed.p. 92
Schopenhauer
Wagner
Baudelaire
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Relation of Average Monthly Temperature to admission of lunatics to asylum and to production
of works of genius (Lombroso, Man of Genius)
Works of genius
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Henri Matisse
Vincent van Gogh
"Cubists and Futurists Are Making Insanity Pay”New York Times, March 16, 1913
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DEGENERATE “ART” Guide to the Exhibition, Munich 1937
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1937 Munich Exhibit of “Degenerate Art”
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Paul Klee Runner at the Goal
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Max Beckmann’s Paris Society
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Cesare Lombroso, Album of CriminalsAtavistic: evolutionary throwback
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Lombroso’s German and Italian Criminals
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Cesare Lombroso, The Female Offender (1893)
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Galton’s Composites
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Francis Galton’s Composite
Photographs
Francis Galton Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development (1883)
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member of extended Juke Family (from Estabrook papers, SUNY)
Richard Dugdale, The Jukes: A Study in Crime, Pauperism, Disease and Heredity (1877)
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Charles Guiteau
NY Daily Graphic Jul 6, 1881
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July 1881 “Struck Down at the Post of Duty”
“Last Honors” Harper's Weekly October 1, 1881
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Legal Definitions of Insanity• McNagten Rules (1843)—defendant was
responsible if he knew the nature and consequences of his act, and that it was forbidden by law (cognitive test).
• Irresistible Impulse (1887)—emotional inability to resist act.
• Durham rule (1954)—not criminally responsible if behavior is product of mental disease (product test).
• Insanity Defense Reform Act (1984)—not guilty, if due to mental disease and was unable to appreciate the wrongfulness of act. Shift of burden to defendant to prove insanity.