CHAPTER XIII.

ABNORMAL AND MORBID CHARACTERS 405

Are all normal characters mutually equivalent?—Attempt at

classification according to their value-Marks of abnormal

character: absence of unity, impossibility of

prevision—Class I. Successive contradictory characters:

anomalies, conversions; their psychological mechanism.

Alternating characters—Second class: Contradictory

coexistent characters. Incomplete form: contradiction

between principles and tendencies. Complete form.

Contradiction between one tendency and another—Third

class: Unstable characters. Their physiological and

psychological characters—Psychological infantilism.

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