pathography, n.Definitions

Pathography (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the psychological biography of a genius, and it fails when it stops at the diagnosis: knowing that Schumann had dementia praecox explains nothing about his psyche.

Pathography (n.) does ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not seek to blacken the radiant or drag the sublime into the dust: no one is too great to be subject to the laws governing normal and pathological life.