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The Icarus complex is a term in psychoanalysis and personality theory in psychology that was first described by Henry A. Murray.[1]
It is seen in a personality type that contains many or all of the following attributes:[1]
- cynosural narcissism
- ascensionism combined with
- the prospection of falling
- the cathection of fire
- possible enuresis or incontinence persisted in childhood,
- an abundance of water imagery.
Two of the ancillary consequences of this personality complex are:[1]
- a craving for immortality (reascension)
- a conception of woman as an object to be used for narcissistic gains.
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