Doxomania
Doxomania (from ancient Greek δόξα = "fame, honor" and μανία <maníā> = "frenzy, anger, madness") denotes lust for fame or lust for fame.
Concept history
Doxomania in Catholic Moral Doctrine
The first demonstrable mention of lust for fame as a human vice goes back to Euagrios Pontikos , who counted lust for fame as Vana Gloria among the eight negative traits that monks can be afflicted with. Pope Gregory I († 604) assigned lust for fame to the mortal sin of pride in his catalog of sins .
This view has played a role since early Christianity. Johannes Cassianus writes:
If the monk fasts openly, he is plagued by a vain thirst for glory; if he hides it, in order to avoid his lust for fame, he [p. 229] again the self-sufficiency blows. In order not to be infected by the vain thirst for glory, he avoids long prayers in the presence of the brothers, and yet he does not escape the sting of vanity when he does it in secret and has no witnesses to his actions.
Ramon Llull (c. 1237 to 1316) writes in the Doctrina pueril:
Addiction to fame causes one to direct one's inner pursuit entirely to one's own honor .... Therefore, fame addicts do good or something that has the appearance of good in order to be praised and honored.
Older conversational encyclopedias describe doxomania well into the 19th century as an excessive desire for fame or fame.
Doxomania and Similar Psychopathological Concepts
In addition to the Christian moral assessment of the lust for fame, the description of the corresponding behavior found its way into psychology and psychiatry in the 20th century. In the context of narcissistic personality disorder , the “search for fame, fame and strength” is discussed as a motive. In this respect, the concept of doxomania is still relevant today.
An unrelated historical term is paradoxomania (" paradox addiction"), which is described as an addiction to shine through something extraordinary, unexpected and strange. In this context there is also talk of nerd addiction and weirdness fever . The eccentric addiction is also a reason for errors, because the "eccentric addiction or the unconditional pursuit of the unusual", according to Uhle (1825), "tempts some people not to accept irrefutable truths" because one is so pleased with the unbelievable ("or : Unbelievable ") find" that one attaches faith to even the most daring assumptions and loses all sensible self-thinking. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cassian († 430/35) - Of the institutions of the monasteries (De institutis coenobiorum et de octo principalium vitiorum remediis) Eleventh Book: From the spirit of vain glory
- ↑ Ramon Llull (approx. 1237 to 1316) Doctrina pueril: What children need to know LIT Verlag Münster, 2010
- ↑ Conversations-Hand-Lexikon von Wolff 1834
- ↑ Handbook of Foreign Words by FE Petri 1863
- ^ Encyclopedic Lexicon relating to the latest literature and history of philosophy Brockhaus 1838
- ^ Narcissism.net Narcissistic and Borderline Disorder, two related images
- ↑ compare e.g. B. FAZJOBnet.¨, contribution by B. Bandelow
- ^ Sebastian Strauss: Between narcissism and self-hatred, De Gruyter 2010
- ↑ Wolfgang Heinrich Puchta : The businessman in matters of public and private law practice . II Palm and Erst Enke, Erlangen 1818 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- ^ Wilhelm Traugott Krug: General concise dictionary of the philosophical sciences along with their literature and history . tape 3 . Brockhaus, Leipzig 1833 ( limited preview in Google book search).
- ↑ Johann Christian August Heyse: Brief foreign dictionary or manual for understanding after avoiding the foreign expressions more or less common in our language. With the name of the pronunciation, the intonation and the most necessary explanation . Hahn'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover 1825, p. 495 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Alois Uhle: Flush thinking as a preschool for the teaching of written representation in lower and middle prose . Piller's writings, Lemberg 1825, p. 139 and 184 ( limited preview in Google Book search).