God complex

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God Complex (English: god complex ), even God Complex or Godman complex is a popular psychological term for the unwavering self-perception of a person who believes because of personal abilities , privileges or its infallibility to be God-like or act like God.

God complex is not a medical term.

Concept formation

The term was coined in 1913 by the British psychoanalyst Ernest Jones (1879-1958) in the article The God Complex: The Belief That One is God and the Resulting Character Traits . Jones related this term very closely to people who see themselves in this role and therefore have a special urge to intervene in the lives of others as psychologists and / or psychiatrists. The use of the term was later generalized.

description

For example, a person with a God complex may refuse to allow or admit the possibility of their error or failure, even in the face of irrefutable evidence, unsolvable problems, or impossible tasks. Such a person is also extremely dogmatic in their views, which manifests itself in the fact that this person speaks of their personal opinions as if they are undoubtedly correct. Someone with a god complex, for example, shows no consideration for the conventions and demands of society and may require special personal considerations or privileges.

Narcissism , alleged infallibility in thinking and acting, overestimation of oneself , loss of reality (or lack of reference to reality) and dogmatic thinking, i.e. the general belief in representing the only correct values ​​and ideals, can often be seen in character and behavior .

Demarcation

God complex is not a medical term or a diagnosed mental disorder , nor is it mentioned in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).

Use in pop culture

  • The god complex is mentioned in the song Sugar, We're Going Down by Fall Out Boy : "A loaded god complex, cock it and pull it".
  • God Complex is the title of a comic book story (Iron Man / Thor No. 1–4; 2011) with the Marvel heroes Thor and Iron Man .
  • Gottkomplex is the title of an album by the German rapper 3Plusss .
  • The character Light Yagami from Death Note develops a god complex by using the Death Note .

Web links

  • McLemee.com ( June 24, 2015 memento on the Internet Archive ) - The Shrink with a God Complex . Ronald Hayman: A Life of Jung , Newsday, April 22, 2001.
  • News-Service.Stanford.edu - Did Caligula have a God complex? Stanford, Oxford archaeologists find evidence that depraved tyrant annexed sacred temple , John Sanford, September 10, 2003.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deep Blue on the University of Michigan website umich.edu.Retrieved January 22, 2012
  2. ^ Ernest Jones: Essays in Applied Psycho-Analysis . Lightning Source Inc, March 15, 2007, ISBN 1-4067-0338-9 , p. 472 (accessed January 22, 2012).
  3. ^ Judd Marble: Psychiatry in Transition . Transaction Publishers, January 1, 1994, ISBN 978-1-4128-3225-0 , p. 279.
  4. ^ Bryan M. Knight: Love, Sex & Hypnosis: Secrets of Psychotherapy . The Chessnut Press, 1992, ISBN 978-0-919848-08-5 , p. 41.
  5. ^ Salman Akhtar : Comprehensive Dictionary of Psychoanalysis . Karnac Books, August 31, 2009, ISBN 978-1-78049-303-9 , p. 123.
  6. ↑ a b Harold I. Kaplan: Modern Group Book, volume 4: Sensitivity through encounter and marathon . J. Aronson, 1972.
  7. ↑ Ernest Jones: The God-Man Complex: The Belief in Being God, and the Character Traits Consequent to it . In: A journal for psychological and medical anthropology . tape 12 . Ernst Klett Verlag, Stuttgart 1958, p. 17 .
  8. ↑ Kaplan, Harold I .; Benjamin J. Sadock: Sensitivity through encounter and marathon . In: Modern Group Book . tape 4 , 1972.
  9. ↑ Fall Out Boy: Sugar, We're Going Down (April 5, 2005)
  10. ↑ Alexander Austel: 3PLUSSS - God complex. In: laut.de . November 11, 2016. Retrieved June 9, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Death Note in Anime Night. ProSieben MAXX , accessed on June 9, 2017 .