Friday, January 2, 2004
Icarus Complex
Behavioral characteristics displayed by the Icarian individual include preoccupation with fire, excessively high ambitions that melt in the face of failure, craving for admiration, and exaggerated self-esteem." (Henry Murray (115) ) Another character flaw of the juvenile mind of the biblical God is one that depicts him as a jealous god, a god so consumed and absorbed with its own greatness of being, (116) that failure to recognize and worship it will bring everlasting torment and damnation in...
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