allocentric

1. adj. denoting interest in or focus on other people or objects rather than the self. Compare autocentric.

2. n. an individual who is dispositionally predisposed to put the goals and needs of the group above his or her own. Compare idiocentric. See also sociocentrism. —allocentrism n.

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November 18th 2024

family romance

a common childhood fantasy in which a child imagines that he or she is the offspring not of his or her biological parents but of a noble or royal personage. Sigmund Freud saw this as rooted in the Oedipus complex. See foster-child fantasy.