Note 75 — ADDRESSES (continued 2)

A Raw Youth, p. 503. Compare this other passage (ibid., p. 548) dealing with one of these pathological cases I mentioned a little space ago. “Versilov can have had no definite aim, and I believe, indeed, he did not reflect on the matter at all, but acted under the influence of a whirlwind of conflicting emotions. But the theory of actual madness I cannot accept, especially as he is not in the least mad now. But the ‘second self’ I do accept unquestionably. What is a second self exactly? The second self, according to a medical book, written by an expert, which I purposely read afterwards, is nothing else than the first stage of serious mental derangement, which may lead to something very bad.”