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==Royalty syndrome is mostly female== | ==Royalty syndrome is mostly female== | ||
'Royalty syndrome' in general is fairly gendered. There contain few fiction or cases of men wanting to be royalty, but plenty of women wanting to be so. Men instead are taught to fantasize being a high-income earner or a hyper-competitive man. When men dream of being high-status, like a rock-star for example, it usually involves some notion of work or earned admiration, rather than genetic or happenstance luxury. | 'Royalty syndrome' in general is fairly gendered. There contain few fiction or cases of men wanting to be royalty, but plenty of women wanting to be so. Men instead are taught to fantasize being a high-income earner or a hyper-competitive man. When men dream of being high-status, like a rock-star for example, it usually involves some notion of work or earned admiration, rather than genetic or happenstance luxury. | ||
==Origin== | |||
Wikipedia as of 2019 attributes the term to late 20th century China (without much citation) or Collette Dowling in 1989. We do see earlier references however. For example in Phyllis Greenacre's 1953 book, "Trauma Growth and Personality" in which he refers to women who "lack force in social and intellectual persuits" and describes a patient who he felt had a "princess complex, though without haughtiness". | |||
==Quotes== | ==Quotes== | ||