1988
DOI: 10.1080/21674086.1988.11927203
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Envy, Identification, and Pride

Abstract: The constituents of the complex affective experience of envy are delineated, and defenses against each of these constituents are explored. Attention is then called to a common, variably adaptive, and socially approved means of obviating or coping with envious feelings, involving a partial identification and culminating in the conscious experience of "being proud of." A conjecture is made regarding the kind of pathology most likely to interfere with this mechanism.

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“…6 I shall in this chapter consistently use 'patient' to refer to the person feeling the emotion, and 'agent' to refer to the person arousing it. 7 Rosenblatt (1988) 63 calls the third perception "a sense of entitlement"; Elster (1999) 169 agrees, labelling the perception "it could have been me"; Wierzbicka (1999) 98 prefers the weaker "this is bad". Klein (1957Klein ( /1975 notes some specific examples of envy triggers, including: ambition; "the relative absence of envy … in others"; those who grudge others' happiness; and those who in old age cannot resign themselves to the fact "that youth cannot be regained" and cannot "take pleasure and interest in the lives of young people … without undue bitterness".…”
Section: Envy Scenariosmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…6 I shall in this chapter consistently use 'patient' to refer to the person feeling the emotion, and 'agent' to refer to the person arousing it. 7 Rosenblatt (1988) 63 calls the third perception "a sense of entitlement"; Elster (1999) 169 agrees, labelling the perception "it could have been me"; Wierzbicka (1999) 98 prefers the weaker "this is bad". Klein (1957Klein ( /1975 notes some specific examples of envy triggers, including: ambition; "the relative absence of envy … in others"; those who grudge others' happiness; and those who in old age cannot resign themselves to the fact "that youth cannot be regained" and cannot "take pleasure and interest in the lives of young people … without undue bitterness".…”
Section: Envy Scenariosmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…17 Rosenblatt (1988) 63-4 actually says envy has six components, confusing these three affects with the three antecedent conditions referred to above (see also n.7 above). 18 Elster (1999) 171.…”
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“…The psychology literature addresses the way pride regulates individual behaviour (Reissland 1994, Rosenblatt 1988. The social identity literature considers the association between pride and group membership and a growing body of work in economics considers the way pride is associated with departures from rational behaviour.…”
Section: Pridementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Tajfel, Turner (1979) show that the groups we belong to are an important source of pride and that much of our self-esteem arises from membership of collectives. Building on this literature, Rosenblatt (1988) shows that individuals who form a group share the same ego ideal and thus identify with one another: "The assertion of a group affiliation appears necessary to make some of the status 'rub off'." (Rosenblatt 1988, p. 69).…”
Section: Pridementioning
confidence: 99%