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monoïdeism|ˌmɒnəʊaɪˈdiːɪz(ə)m| Also monoideism. [f. mono- + ide-a + -ism.] Concentration of the mind, or fixation of the attention, upon one idea; esp. as a form of monomania or a hypnotic condition.
1860Fowler Med. Voc., Mono-ideism, that artificially induced condition in which the acts of the mind, sensation, and motion, may be completely governed by means of suggestive ideas—the individual being conscious.—Braid. 1885Gurney & Myers in Proc. Soc. Psych. Research III. 407 It is observed that the mental condition of hypnotised ‘subjects’ is often one of marked mono-ideism—of strong and one-sided attention. 1890tr. T. Ribot's Psychol. of Attention iii. 96 This higher form of ecstasy may at times reach the state of complete, absolute monoideism, that is, the state of perfect unity of consciousness. 1891W. J. Greenstreet tr. Guyau's Educ. & Heredity i. 14 This state has been called monoideism, and is found in somnambulists. 1891Syd. Soc. Lex., Monoïdeism, Braid's term for the condition in which mental conditions in one person are governed by ideas suggested by another. 1892Sully in Tuke Dict. Psych. Med. I. 110/2 Narrowness of interest with its accompanying tendency to monoideism is one fertile source of danger in an age when subdivision and specialisation of work has been carried to an extreme point. 1907Athenæum 2 Mar. 258/1 Monoïdeism in science is always a present peril. 1966D. W. Abse Hysteria viii. 116 It was essentially a narrowing of the attention, or a ‘monoideism’..that ushered in the hypnotic trance. Hence monoideˈistic a., pertaining to or characterized by monoideism.
1902W. James Var. Relig. Exper. 525 Philosophy, with its passion for unity, and mysticism with its monoideistic bent, both ‘pass to the limit’ and identify the something with a unique God who is the all-inclusive soul of the world. 1904G. S. Hall Adolescence II. 50 The history of philosophy shows that the mono-ideistic thinkers..were the victims of an environment or an age itself overwrought, one-sided and extreme. |