Tag: personality

  • Psychoanalysis: What is the Main Character Syndrome?

    Psychoanalysis: What is the Main Character Syndrome?

    Written by Abdullah Qureshi Have you ever felt that you are the hero/heroine of your story? Do you feel as if everything in your world has an effect on your ‘story’? Or, let me put it this way: have you ever felt that you are completely different from everyone around you? If you have felt…

  • An Introduction to Sadism

    An Introduction to Sadism

    Written by Abdullah Qureshi Sadism is a psychological construct which has a relatively sparse amount of scientific literature. This is odd as sadism as a literary construct has been under study for centuries. According to Meloy (1997), sadism is basically getting pleasure from someone else’s physical or mental pain or from controlling and dominating them.…