monomania
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- affected_individual
- Captain Ahab
- description
- A state of intense obsession that seized Captain Ahab on his homeward voyage after his encounter with Moby Dick, causing him to rave and see the whale as the personification of all evil.
- onset_timing
- homeward voyage after injury
- symptoms
- raving lunatic, delirium
Relationships
- afflictedCaptain Ahab
- description
- Captain Ahab developed monomania during his homeward voyage, following his bodily dismemberment by Moby Dick.
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- the final monomania seized him, seems all but certain from the fact that, at intervals during the passage, he was a raving lunatic
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- extracted_at
- 2026-03-02T00:02:03.732Z
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