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  2. Characterology - Wikipedia

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    Characterology (from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ 'character' and ‑λογία, ‑logia) is the academic study of character which was prominent in German-speaking countries during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. [1] [2] It is considered a historic branch of personality psychology, which extended into psychoanalysis and sociology. [3]

  3. Daimonic - Wikipedia

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    which is translated as, the character (ēthos) of a human (anthropōi) is the daimōn, or sometimes the character of a person is Fate, and the variation An individuals character is their fate (idem "Man's character is his fate"). [2] [6] [7] Aeschylus mentions the term Daimon in his play Agemmemnon, written during 458 B.C. [2] [8] [9] [10]

  4. Destiny - Wikipedia

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    Destiny, sometimes also called fate (from Latin fatum 'decree, prediction, destiny, fate'), is a predetermined course of events. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It may be conceived as a predetermined future, whether in general or of an individual.

  5. Fatalism - Wikipedia

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    Destiny, painting by T. C. Gotch (1885–1886), Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia. Fatalism is a belief [1] and philosophical doctrine [2] [3] which considers the entire universe as a deterministic system and stresses the subjugation of all events, actions, and behaviors to fate or destiny, which is commonly associated with the consequent attitude of resignation in the face of future ...

  6. Personality - Wikipedia

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    On the other hand, more behaviorally-based approaches define personality through learning and habits. Nevertheless, most theories view personality as relatively stable. [2] The study of the psychology of personality, called personality psychology, attempts to explain the tendencies that underlie differences in behavior. Psychologists have taken ...

  7. Alter ego - Wikipedia

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    A distinct meaning of alter ego is found in the literary analysis used when referring to fictional literature and other narrative forms, describing a key character in a story who is perceived to be intentionally representative of the work's author (or creator), by oblique similarities, in terms of psychology, behavior speech, or thoughts, often ...

  8. Witch (archetype) - Wikipedia

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    In each of these images there is a little piece of human psychology and human fate, a remnant of the joys and sorrows that have been repeated countless times in our ancestral history. [ 7 ] Jung traces the term back to Philo , Irenaeus , and the Corpus Hermeticum , which associate archetypes with divinity and the creation of the world, and ...

  9. Amor fati - Wikipedia

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    Amor fati is a Latin phrase that may be translated as "love of fate" or "love of one's fate".It is used to describe an attitude in which one sees everything that happens in one's life, including suffering and loss, as good or, at the very least, necessary.