Napoleon Complex

Post by **HM-PuFFNSTuFF** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:25 am

= krapus.

I'm willing to entertain opposing viewpoints.

I'm guessing that not only is he a small man but he grew up without a father present.

Confirm or deny my theory kracus.

Post by **Ryoki** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:29 am

When you say small man, do you refer to penis size (and sort of mix some Freud in there)?

Post by **HM-PuFFNSTuFF** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:30 am

not really no...

just a height thing really but he was a virgin til he was 24 and that could beg the question.

Post by **Ryoki** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:32 am

Ah, yes i understand now.
Carry on.

Post by **HM-PuFFNSTuFF** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:34 am

In the fields of psychology and psychoanalysis, Napoleon complex is a colloquial term used to describe a type of inferiority complex suffered by people who are short. Alfred Adler pioneered the psychological work on inferiority complexes, and used Napoléon Bonaparte as an example of someone who he thought was driven to extremes by a psychological need to compensate for what he saw as a handicap: his small stature.

http://www.psychcentral.com/psypsych/wi ... on_complex

Post by **HM-PuFFNSTuFF** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:35 am

Not that i don't have my own problems, I just figured you'd all get a bigger laugh out of krapus'.

Post by **Ryoki** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:46 am

I recently read a little book filled with quotes from Napoleon, pretty interesting - he always meant to write a definitive book on war (like Clausewitz or Sun Tsu), but never found the time because he was too busy campaigning.

He was quite the megalomanic madman apparently. Saw no problems with the people rising up to kill the elite and bring him to power, and no problems with then killing most of those people and reinstating the elite who survived the killings (because revolutionaries can't be trusted).

Must have been a powerful charasmatic figure though.

Post by **HM-PuFFNSTuFF** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:50 am

Ryoki wrote: Must have been a powerful charasmatic figure though.

Apparently he really was. I'm trying to reach back a fair ways to my history studies but he rose through the ranks in the French army and was considered very charismatic. A very driven man. Apparently according to the book of lists, he had a notoriuosly small penis which his wife severed and kept after his death.

*scurries off to find a confirming source*

Post by **HM-PuFFNSTuFF** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:50 am

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/040102.html

Post by **HM-PuFFNSTuFF** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:54 am

to sum up that link...

Is the penis Napoleon's? Is it even a penis? Who knows? Given the march of science one presumes it'd be easy to establish the item's provenance conclusively, but understandably no one seems to be in any hurry to do so. After you've paid three grand for a dead man's penis, who wants to be told it's a grape?

--CECIL ADAMS

Post by **Ryoki** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 12:17 pm

Haha, interesting read