Jehovah complex

Jehovah complex is a term used in Jungian analysis to describe a neurosis of egotistical self-inflation. Use included in psychoanalytic contributions to psychohistory and biography, with, for example, Fritz Wittels using the term about Sigmund Freud in his 1924 biography^[1] and H. E. Barnes using the term about George Washington and Andrew Jackson.^[2]

The term derives from the Masoretic Old Testament wherein, by certain literalist interpretations, Jehovah is depicted as a bloodthirsty genocidist who seeks the extinction of every man, woman, and child of enemy tribes and who disobeys the commandment to have "no other gods before me."^{[citation needed]} In popular usage, the Jehovah complex is a metaphor for bigotry within a specific religion and for a take-no-prisoners enforcement of conformity.^{[citation needed]}

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↑ Sigmund Freud: His Personality, His Teachings and His School, by Fritz Wittels, 1924
↑ "Some Reflections on the Possible Service of Analytic Psychology to History", by H. E. Barnes, Psychoanal Rev 1921, 8(1):22-37

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[1] Sigmund Freud: His Personality, His Teachings and His School, by Fritz Wittels, 1924

[2] "Some Reflections on the Possible Service of Analytic Psychology to History", by H. E. Barnes, Psychoanal Rev 1921, 8(1):22-37

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