All 7 Uses of
megalomania
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
- It can result in megalomania, as I call it.†
Chpt 5 *megalomania = a psychological state characterized by delusions of grandeur (belief that you are much more important than you are)
- But a touch of megalomania, all the same.†
Chpt 5
- And yet sometimes ...You see, a megalomaniac, as psychologists tell us, is a man who has done a good deal of repressing—pretending to himself that he does not actually feel what he actually feels, if you see what I mean.†
Chpt 5megalomaniac = someone with delusions of grandeur (the belief that they are much more important than they are)
- Isn't it just possible that the racist's view of the Negro as a person may be nothing other than a megalomaniac projection—that is to say, a feeling of righteousness in one's superiority to a person onto whom one has projected all one has had to repress to become what one has become.†
Chpt 5
- Or, our business is to contend against the very megalomania we tend to induce, if you follow my reasoning.†
Chpt 5megalomania = a psychological state characterized by delusions of grandeur (belief that you are much more important than you are)
- I recognize the megalomania in myself, and I recognize that I must make perfectly sure that my motives are as pure as possible.†
Chpt 5
- A touch of megalomania.†
Chpt 9