Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

Herostratean complex

Chinese translation:

希罗他底狂人综合症

Added to glossary by Wenjer Leuschel (X)
Jul 29, 2004 09:12
19 yrs ago
English term

Herostratean complex

English to Chinese Social Sciences History Intellectual History
In the Hellenistic world there was a scramble for place, power, riches --- and (a human goal sociologists and political scientists often underestimate) public attention. To do the unusual, to go to the extreme, to be original, was one way of making your mark. There is, for instance, the young man who set fire to the temple of Diana in Ephesus in order that his name might go down in history --- as indeed it has. There are psychologists who call an inordinate desire for fame a "Herostratean complex."

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心理学家们将一种盲目成名欲称为“希罗他底狂人综合症”。

心理学家们将一种盲目成名欲称为“希罗他底狂人综合症”。
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