Offense

An offense , also mortification , is the hurt of another person in his honor , his values , his feelings , especially his self-respect .

In his grammatical-critical dictionary of the High German dialect, Johann Christoph Adelung describes the insult as " annoyance combined with sadness." As a scientifically used term in psychology , it describes a wounding of mental and psychological integrity , Sigmund Freud saw the narcissistic insult as a self-esteem insult a rejection . What hurts makes you sick.

An example of an offense can be the failure to reply to a greeting , whether intentionally or not. Compare Friedrich Schiller's early poem An Minna (1782): “My Minna is passing by? | My Minna doesn't know me? ”Followed by a multifaceted emotional development.

See also

• Narcissistic hurt
• Honor offense

literature

• Reinhard Haller : The power of hurt . 9th edition. Ecowin, Wals bei Salzburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-7110-0078-1 (248 pages). See also the interview with Reinhard Haller on the same topic.

Web links

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

• Lydia Heller: The offended me , Deutschlandfunk, February 27, 2020

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Duden: Keyword mortification .
2. ↑ zeno.org
3. ^ Friedrich Schiller : To Minna . Wikisource
4. ↑ Offenses and the desire for revenge
5. ↑ Everyone has their abysses within themselves . Zeit Online - Wissen , No. 1/2017, December 13, 2016