Choleric

Choleric , allegorical putto at Friedrichsfelde Palace , based on the original by Johann Gottfried Knöffler

Choleric (from Latin cholericus , Middle Latin colericus , "yellow-galled, yellow-galled; choleric, choleric", from ancient Greek χολή cholḗ , German , “ gall , bile juice” ) is the name for an easily excitable, unbalanced, irascible , angry attack .

Concept development

The term goes back to the scientifically outdated doctrine of the four temperaments based on humoral pathology , in which the choleric character characterized by a "choleric complexion" (from Latin complexio : complexio, temperament, constitutional type in the humoral-pathological sense) alongside the melancholic , the phlegmatic and forms one of the four constitutional types for the sanguine .

In a positive sense, choleric people are described as strong-willed, fearless and determined.

In the past, the choleric was generally considered to be the basic type of human character traits who are particularly susceptible to the passions and diseases associated with his type. Both the strength of the individual temperaments and their mixture were viewed individually for people. Healthy and desirable state prepared according to Galen the balance between the temperaments. A person with a strongly predominant temperament such as humoralpathologisch a hot and dry "juice mixture" (by an excess of "Yellow bile") or texture (complex ion) attributable Choleriker can be called sick according to this view. Modern disease classifications like the ICD 10 do not recognize “choleric” as a diagnosis.

According to Hans Jürgen Eysenck , the choleric temperament is characterized by a combination of emotional instability and extraversion .

literature

• Benjamin Stoll: Acting pedagogy in competitive sport: Approaches to performance optimization and personal development based on practical examples football and boxing. diplom.de, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8428-0884-3 , pp. 17-19.
• Erich Fromm, Rainer Funk: Psychoanalysis and Ethics. Building blocks for a humanistic characterology. Open Publishing Rights, 2015, ISBN 978-3-95912-029-6 , pp. 26-28.

Web links

Wiktionary: Choleric  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Konrad Goehl : Guido d'Arezzo the Younger and his 'Liber mitis'. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1984 (= Würzburg medical-historical research. Volume 32), p. 580.
2. ↑ Cf. Konrad Goehl: Guido d'Arezzo the Younger and his 'Liber mitis'. 1984, p. 584.