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The Icarus complex is a term in psychoanalysis and personality theory first used by Henry A. Murray〔Sperber, Michael A. "Albert Camus: Camus' the Fall: The Icarus Complex" ''American Imago'' (1969), 26:269-280.〕 to describe a particular type of over-ambitious character. Psychosynthesis has applied it to those in whom spiritual ambition exceeds their personality limits, leading to a backlash.〔P. Ferrucci, ''What We May Be'' (1990) p. 160-1〕 ==Characteristics== It is seen in a personality type that contains many or all of the following attributes:〔 * cynosural narcissism (attention-seeking or admiration-seeking narcissistic behaviors) * ''ascensionism'' (the notion that the future is not dictated by the past or present, and no destination or goal is unreachable) combined with an ''anticipation of falling'' (a foreboding sense of a future "crash and burn") * Cathexis of fire (an emotional drawing towards, or fascination with, fire) * possible enuresis (bedwetting) or incontinence in childhood, linked to an abundance of water imagery. Ancillary consequences of this personality complex are: * a craving for immortality (reascension) * a conception of woman as an object to be used for narcissistic gains (sex as Narcissistic supply)〔 * Oedipal defiance.〔R. Hus, ''The Mindscapes of Art'' (1986) p. 196〕 *Perpetual adolescence.〔E. A. Kreuter, ''Victim Vulnerability'' (2008) p. 38-9〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Icarus complex」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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