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"Idealisation" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... but he knew her too well: she was perfectly indifferent to him. If he hadn't been a fool he would have pretended to believe her story; he ought to have had the strength to conceal his disappointment and the self-control to master his temper. He could not tell why he loved her. He had read of the idealisation that takes place in love, but he saw her exactly as she was. She was not amusing or clever, her mind was common; she had a vulgar shrewdness which revolted him, she had no gentleness nor softness. As she would have put it herself, she was on the make. What aroused her admiration ...
— Of Human Bondage • W. Somerset Maugham |
Words linked to "Idealisation" : defense, thought, romanticisation, psychological medicine, sentimentalization, sentimentalisation, defence, idea, psychiatry, appreciation, idealise, defense mechanism, defense reaction, defence reaction, psychopathology, admiration, romanticization, defence mechanism |
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