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Superiority Complex-An analysis
Defining complex
A complex is a core pattern of emotions, memories, perceptions, and wishes in the personal unconscious organized around a common theme, such as power or status (the works of Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud.)
An example: If one’s leg had been removed in his/her childhood (Amputation). The sense towards the leg is called as ‘Complex’ according to Carl Yung.
Complexes are believed by Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud to influence the individual's attitude and behavior.
Jung found evidence for complexes very early in his career in the word association tests conducted at the Burghölzli, the psychiatric clinic of Zurich University, where Jung worked from 1900–1908 (Daniels, 2003). Jung developed the theory out of his work on Word Association Test (Daniels, 2003). In the word association tests, a researcher read a list of 100 words to each subject, who was asked to say, as quickly as possible, the first thing that came to mind in response to each word, and the subject's reaction time was measured in fifths of a second (Daniels, 2003). (Sir Francis Galton invented the method in 1879) Researchers noted any unusual reactions—hesitations, slips of the tongue, signs of emotion (Daniels, 2003). Jung was interested in patterns he detected in subjects' responses, hinting at unconscious feelings and beliefs (Daniels, 2003).
In Jung's theory, complexes may be conscious, partly conscious, or unconscious. Complexes can be positive or negative, resulting in good or bad consequences. Jung believed it was perfectly normal to have complexes because everyone has emotional experiences that affect the psyche. Although they are normal, negative complexes can cause us pain and suffering (Mattoon, 1999).
Everybody feels some kind of self-esteem that provides him/her the self-respect he has for himself in this world. The environment of human beings charges each individual to possess such dynamic self that helps a person to comport himself in society. Its rewards being capable of allowing the members in the community to accord certain people their respects and thereby recognizing the worth these persons possess in a particular community. The education a person has acquired, the family an individual hails from, the organizations a person belongs, and the contribution individuals have made to their various communities or country increases a person's worth. What this study concentrates on, is those that intensionally want to regard themselves as superior human beings and in their fantasying and imagination, regard themselves as better than others in CONTENT. This is what ascribed the psychiatric illness of Superiority Complex Personality Disorders
Defining the SCP:
The SCP Disorders is a psychiatric illness which the patient possess the fantasy and daydreaming experiences that he is better than other individuals in content as a human being.
The patient due to this false knowledge or delusion, commences to cause disturbance in his milieu against other human beings, which in his unprecedented delusion considers them as worthless.
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Defining complex
A complex is a core pattern of emotions, memories, perceptions, and wishes in the personal unconscious organized around a common theme, such as power or status (the works of Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud.)
An example: If one’s leg had been removed in his/her childhood (Amputation). The sense towards the leg is called as ‘Complex’ according to Carl Yung.
Complexes are believed by Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud to influence the individual's attitude and behavior.
Jung found evidence for complexes very early in his career in the word association tests conducted at the Burghölzli, the psychiatric clinic of Zurich University, where Jung worked from 1900–1908 (Daniels, 2003). Jung developed the theory out of his work on Word Association Test (Daniels, 2003). In the word association tests, a researcher read a list of 100 words to each subject, who was asked to say, as quickly as possible, the first thing that came to mind in response to each word, and the subject's reaction time was measured in fifths of a second (Daniels, 2003). (Sir Francis Galton invented the method in 1879) Researchers noted any unusual reactions—hesitations, slips of the tongue, signs of emotion (Daniels, 2003). Jung was interested in patterns he detected in subjects' responses, hinting at unconscious feelings and beliefs (Daniels, 2003).
In Jung's theory, complexes may be conscious, partly conscious, or unconscious. Complexes can be positive or negative, resulting in good or bad consequences. Jung believed it was perfectly normal to have complexes because everyone has emotional experiences that affect the psyche. Although they are normal, negative complexes can cause us pain and suffering (Mattoon, 1999).
Everybody feels some kind of self-esteem that provides him/her the self-respect he has for himself in this world. The environment of human beings charges each individual to possess such dynamic self that helps a person to comport himself in society. Its rewards being capable of allowing the members in the community to accord certain people their respects and thereby recognizing the worth these persons possess in a particular community. The education a person has acquired, the family an individual hails from, the organizations a person belongs, and the contribution individuals have made to their various communities or country increases a person's worth. What this study concentrates on, is those that intensionally want to regard themselves as superior human beings and in their fantasying and imagination, regard themselves as better than others in CONTENT. This is what ascribed the psychiatric illness of Superiority Complex Personality Disorders
Defining the SCP:
The SCP Disorders is a psychiatric illness which the patient possess the fantasy and daydreaming experiences that he is better than other individuals in content as a human being.
The patient due to this false knowledge or delusion, commences to cause disturbance in his milieu against other human beings, which in his unprecedented delusion considers them as worthless.
(Under Construction)
