Madness

Madness is treated as a condition at the boundary of dreaming and mental disturbance, rather than as a developed character or a narrated episode. The book’s index places nocturnal insanity alongside its broader discussion of how dreams relate to delirium and other disturbances of the mind; these references establish a subject for comparison, not a claim that dreaming and madness are identical.

Nocturnal Insanity and Dreams

The index specifically directs readers to a discussion of nocturnal insanity. Its placement among topics concerning dreams makes the relation between nighttime mental states and dreaming part of the book’s inquiry, while the index entry itself supplies no case history, symptoms, or detailed account of how such insanity manifests.

Delirium and Disturbed Mental States

A separate index entry links delirium with dreams, the fulfilment of desires, and internal organic stimuli. These associations show that the book considers delirium in relation to both dream experience and bodily sources of mental activity. They do not, by themselves, make delirium equivalent to madness or establish a single causal explanation.

Scope of the Evidence

The index also records a general discussion of mental disturbance in relation to dreams and points readers to broader treatments of mental illness, including hysteria, neurosis, and psychosis. Taken together, these cross-references situate madness within a wider field of inquiry into dreaming and disturbed mental life. They do not support attributing a particular episode, diagnosis, or outcome to the term.