What's the difference between a, megalomaniac and someone that has just more experience in a subject. For example; if someone has been in a long term relationship and knows how hard they are, and doesn't want to get in one with someone else, and that person doesn't understand, couldn't they be construde as being a megalomaniac. Since the person who doesn't want to be in the relationship might say something like, 'Oh, you just don't understand, you haven't been there.' Would that be considered a megalomanic. (This situation is fictional and only an example. I'm just trying to understand what a megalomaniac is.)
2007-06-30 17:24:47 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
A megalomaniac is someone who has delusions of grandeur to such an extent that it becomes a form of insanity. Experience in a particular subject has little or nothing to do with it. The fiction scenario you mention is something else entirely different. It's a fear of relationships or getting involved because of a previous failed one.
2007-06-30 17:30:57 · answer #1 · answered by OP 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Megalomaniacs fail to see their faults, and almost see themselves as being divine. Slobodan Milosevic is a famous megalomaniac, as well as Napoleon Bonaparte, and Jim Morrison.
2007-06-30 17:28:07 · answer #2 · answered by Mickey Mouse Spears 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Megalomania has NOTHING to do with what you think. ~
Hitler and Stalin and Napoleon had that. Bush might fit the category too.
2007-06-30 17:44:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋