| Acknowledgments |
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| Introduction: Two Conceptions of One Life |
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1 | (12) |
| PART ONE Attachments |
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13 | (38) |
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15 | (12) |
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The Strange Story of Baby Blaise and the Old Witch |
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16 | (4) |
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The Terrible Two-Year-Old and His Terrifying World |
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20 | (3) |
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The Young Mother and Her Early Death |
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23 | (4) |
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27 | (11) |
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Etienne's Decision Not to Remarry |
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28 | (2) |
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Etienne's Decision Not to Remain in Clermont-Ferrand |
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30 | (4) |
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Etienne's Decision Not to Send Blaise to a School |
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34 | (4) |
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38 | (13) |
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Blaise's ``Invention of Mathematics'' |
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38 | (4) |
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Blaise's Arithmetic Machine |
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42 | (5) |
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Blaise's Vacuum Experiments |
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47 | (4) |
| PART TWO Separations and Losses |
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51 | (40) |
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53 | (9) |
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Etienne's Outlawry and Jacqueline's Precious Poetry |
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54 | (3) |
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Jacqueline's Smallpox and Earliest Devotional Poetry |
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57 | (3) |
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L'amour tyrannique and the Cardinal ex Machina |
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60 | (2) |
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62 | (14) |
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Marriage Projects for Jacqueline |
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62 | (2) |
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Etienne's Accident and the Pascals' Conversions |
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64 | (7) |
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Blaise's Illness of 1647 and Jacqueline's Vocation |
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71 | (5) |
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76 | (15) |
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Blaise's Loss of His Father and the Two Loves |
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77 | (3) |
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Blaise's Supplication of His Two Sisters |
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80 | (2) |
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Jacqueline's Death to the World and Life in Religion |
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82 | (9) |
| PART THREE The Heart of the Matter |
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91 | (52) |
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Jacqueline de Sainte-Euphemie and the Second Conversion |
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93 | (11) |
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Jacqueline's Letters to Gilberte |
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93 | (5) |
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Singlin's Spirituality and Arnauld's Theology |
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98 | (4) |
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A Perfect Nun and the Religious Community |
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102 | (2) |
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The Memorial I: Remembering and ``Forgetting'' |
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104 | (21) |
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Manifest Separation and the Love of God |
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107 | (3) |
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Latent Attachment and the Love of Deceased Parents |
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110 | (12) |
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Scriptural Associations and Statistical Significance |
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122 | (3) |
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The Memorial II: What Does It Mean? |
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125 | (18) |
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Dream-Visions and Patterns of Unconscious Thought |
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126 | (10) |
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Circumstances That Favored Preoccupation with Loss |
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136 | (3) |
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The Ecrit sur la conversion du pecheur |
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139 | (4) |
| PART FOUR Exaltation |
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143 | (46) |
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The Entretien de M. Pascal et de M. de Sacy: The Illustrious Penitent and His Forgotten Director |
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145 | (13) |
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Pascal As a Reader of Epictetus |
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147 | (3) |
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Pascal As a Reader of Montaigne |
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150 | (3) |
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Sacy As a Reader of Augustine |
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153 | (5) |
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158 | (14) |
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E.A.A.B.P.A.F.D.E.P. and the Arnauld Affair |
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158 | (3) |
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Letters 1--4 and the Ecrits sur la grace |
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161 | (4) |
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The Persecution of 1656 and the Miracle of the Thorn |
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165 | (7) |
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172 | (17) |
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173 | (8) |
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181 | (3) |
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The Letters a Mlle. de Roannez |
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184 | (5) |
| PART FIVE Misery |
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189 | (72) |
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The Pensees I: The Misery of Man |
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192 | (19) |
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Grandeur/Misere: The Great Thinker's Unhappy Ambiguity |
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194 | (3) |
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Left-Column Misery: The Appropriation of Montaigne |
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197 | (8) |
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Right-Column Misery: The Appeal to Reasonable Sinners |
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205 | (6) |
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The Pensees II: The Misery of This Man |
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211 | (20) |
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Depressed Mood in Expressive Fragments |
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212 | (3) |
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Depressed Mood in Self-Referential Fragments |
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215 | (9) |
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Anxious Convert, Unhappy Uncle, and Joyful Christian |
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224 | (7) |
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Other Depressive Traits in Pascal's Last Years |
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231 | (30) |
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Diminished Interest or Pleasure in Usual Activities |
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232 | (5) |
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237 | (2) |
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239 | (1) |
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239 | (2) |
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Fatigue or Loss of Energy |
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241 | (1) |
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Feelings of Worthlessness or Excessive or Inappropriate Guilt |
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242 | (2) |
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Diminished Ability to Think, Concentrate, or Decide |
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244 | (3) |
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Recurrent Thoughts of Death |
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247 | (5) |
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Conclusion: The Good Uses of This Illness |
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252 | (9) |
| APPENDIXES |
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261 | (16) |
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1. Parental Loss and Attachment Theory |
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261 | (5) |
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2. Affective Disorders and Diagnostic Criteria |
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266 | (6) |
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DSM-IV Criteria: Major Depressive Episode |
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269 | (1) |
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DSM-IV Criteria: Cyclothemic Disorder |
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270 | (1) |
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DSM-IV Criteria: Hypomanic Episode |
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270 | (2) |
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3. Affective Disorders and Exceptional Creativity |
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272 | (5) |
| Notes |
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277 | (58) |
| Bibliography of Primary Sources |
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335 | (6) |
| General Index |
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341 | (6) |
| Index of Passages Cited |
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