Pathographic

At the same time Hildebrandt's attack on all pathographic methods that look for nothing but morbid symptoms or simply assume the existence of such symptoms when convenient, is masterful only in so far as it deals with the period before Nietzsche's collapse.

Although this perspective of limits of understanding is very fascinating there emerges out of it a constant problem for the pathographic viewpoint.

In the arts alone, Raphael, Rembrandt, Jackson Pollock, Picasso, and John Lennon were all given the pathographic treatment in the later eighties—the latter two in notorious biographies.