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bovarism|ˈbəʊvərɪz(ə)m|
Also bovarysm(e.
[ad. F. bovarysme, f. the name of the principal character in Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary (1857) + -ism.]
(Domination by) a romantic or unreal conception of oneself. Hence bovaric, bovaristic adjs.; bovarize, bovaryze v. trans. and intr.
[1902J. de Gaultier (title) Le Bovarysme.] 1929A. Huxley Do what you Will 273 By a process of what Jules de Gaultier has called ‘Bovarysm’..we impose upon ourselves a more or less fictitious personality. Ibid. Our earnest efforts to bovaryze ourselves into imaginary unity. Ibid. The bovaric personage..is firmly established. 1934T. S. Eliot Eliz. Essays iii. 40, I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovarysme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare. 1936A. Huxley Olive Tree 30 The French philosopher, Jules de Gaultier, has said that one of the essential faculties of the human being is ‘the power granted to man to conceive himself as other than he is’. He calls this power ‘bovarism’ after the heroine of Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary. Ibid. 31 People have bovarized themselves into the likeness of every kind of real or imaginary being. Ibid. 32 Realizing, if only in words, his bovaristic dreams. 1952H. Levin in Ess. in Crit. II. 3 If to Bovarize is simply to daydream. Ibid. 16 An all-pervasive state of mind: Bovarism. |