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Pygmalionism Psychol.|pɪgˈmeɪlɪənɪz(ə)m|
Also pygmalionism.
[f. Pygmalion a character in Greek mythology + -ism. According to Ovid (Metam. x. 243–97), Pygmalion was a King of Cyprus who made a statue of a beautiful woman and loved it so deeply that Aphrodite gave life to it.]
The condition of loving a statue, image, or inanimate object; love for an object of one's own making.
1905H. Ellis Stud. Psychol. Sex IV. 188 Pygmalionism, or falling in love with statues, is a rare form of erotomania founded on the sense of vision and closely related to the allurement of beauty. 1923― Dance of Life vii. 328 We find records of Pygmalionism and allied perversities in Lucian. 1940Hinsie & Shatzky Psychiatric Dict. 453/1 Pygmalionism,..the condition of falling in love with a creation of one's own. 1946‘M. Innes’ From London Far iii. iv. 201 ‘Did you ever happen to hear of something called Pygmalionism?’ ‘..It's a fancy name for iconolagnia’. 1954H. T. F. Rhodes Satanic Mass vi. 52 After the kiss, accounts agree that the priestess offered herself to the God by an act of pygmalionism. 1966J. Cohen Human Robots iv. 66 We may infer that the Greeks, who had a highly developed visual sense, were inclined to Pygmalionism. Ibid., We may regard Pygmalionism as a manifestation of a more general tendency to excitement induced by a partner's passivity. |