It's more pathological - I have seismic tantrums.
That name is a reminder that some seek solitude for reasons more pathological than religious.
This rhetorical flourish would leave less of a sour taste if Read had recognised that at some point in the late 19th century, the "France of St Louis" turned into something altogether more modern and more pathological.
But the film merely inspects his character before discarding it for something else, like a spoiled child opening birthday gifts — an impatience recurring so often in the movie that it comes to feel more pathological than structural.
At the more pathological end of the spectrum, we have what the psychoanalyst Otto Kernberg called malignant narcissism, the source of much "evil in the world".
If expanded gambling led to more pathological gamblers, the prevalence rate for the disorder would have increased as gaming has expanded in the last 30 years.
His obsession with besting Barry and Sean becomes more pathological as it grows to include his creation of an elaborate point system for gifts given and received, and his mad search for the reclusive Syd Barrett, the lost-genius early member of Pink Floyd, whom Barry idolizes.
To do so is far more pathological than the scenes themselves, which function solely in order to show the barbaric legacy of the consumerist/imperialist world we live in, the true thematic concern of the novel, by illustrating their divergence from Bateman's everyday life.
During the campaign, their findings raised the possibility that whatever energies had consumed the white working class were not limited to political or cultural grievances but had a more pathological source, one that showed up in the United States but nowhere else.
Stagnating in the banality of her bourgeois existence, an imaginative woman stuck in the provinces with no meaningful occupation, she asks herself: "Why – why – did I ever marry?" Emma bequeathed a legacy of female Quixotes, afterimages of Bovarysme (a term Flaubert coined in his correspondence, though it acquired a more pathological connotation in the early 20th century).
The vigilantism of Mr. De Niro's Travis Bickle in "Taxi Driver," is, if anything, even more pathological: his idea of justice is paranoid, apocalyptic and bloody, and it may be the only justice the city has to offer.
