在「鲸记」，亚哈布船长的追逐白鲸是偏执狂的一个例子。
1·It is no fault of mine if my husband's nephew goes mad, and chooses me for the victim of his monomania.
如果我丈夫的侄儿发疯发狂，选定我作他偏执狂的牺牲品，那就不是我的过失了。
2·He looks at a common event with a vision that is diseased, and he distorts it into a gloomy horror engendered of his own monomania.
他带着一个患病的幻觉去观察一件普通平常的事情，把它歪曲成了一桩阴森森的恐怖事件，其实这都是他自己的偏执狂造成的错觉。
3·Let us discuss first five of the most common manias: kleptomania pyromania dipso mania megalomania and monomania.
首先让我们讨论五种最常见的狂热症：盗窃狂症，纵火狂症，耽酒狂症，妄想自大狂症，偏执狂症。
4·Let us discuss first five of the most common manias: kleptomania pyromania dipsomania megalomania and monomania.
首先让我们讨论五种最常见的狂热症：盗窃狂症，纵火狂症，耽酒狂症，妄想自大狂症，偏执狂症。