Schoeck_2010_EnvyATheoryOfSocialBehaviour.pdf

INDEX
egalitarian attitudes, 258, 339
egalitarian ideal, 282, 302, 355
egalitarian society, 5, 33,124,127,298-
299,329
egalitarian utopia, 161
egalitarianism, 229, 236, 297, 358,
364-365
and the potential innovator, 351
of the peasant mentality, 409
religious, 262
egalitarians, 25, 252, 278, 288, 329-
330,365
Ego, 80
elite, selected for measured intelligence,
290-291
emulation, 11,21-22
envidia,44
envier's social relationship, 8
envier's building, 137-138
envious comparison, 89
envious crime and credo of universal
equality, 139
envious feelings, stimuli of, 8
envious intrigue among literati, 191-193
envious man: as informer, 303-304;
distorts the reality he experiences,
125; feels persecuted by his material
surroundings, 179-180; in position
of censor or legislator, 296; in
processes of innovation, 402-403;
in the twentieth century, 305; selfinjury
of, 28
envious motives, imputation of, 29-31
envious murderer, 129-134
envy: an act of perception, 25; activity
that liberates from, 417; and black
magic, 40-56; and conflict, 110-
113; and emulation, 20-22
and equality: in England, 181-182; in
utopia, 184-187
and jealousy: arising from a social
interplay, 230; differences
between, 19-20, 115-120
and phylogenetic aggressive drives, 80
and poverty, 69
and propinquity, 4
and social proximity, 22-23
and witchcraft, 43-46
as an abstract social principle, 305
as a concept, 6
445
as a decimation factor in the developing
countries, 410-412
as an imputed motive in the preference
for progressive taxation, 389
between generations, 55-56
between income groups and occupational
groups, 111-112
blind spot in regard to, 102-105,
119-123
expressed in the desire for preservation
of inequality, 275
causal delusion in, 23-24
confessing one's own, 31-32
cultural responses to expressions of,
426
definitions of, 3-4,11-12,20-21,
24-25,88-89,105,201
democratic, 196,266
develops among equals, 265
etymology of, 17-20
feeling of, learnt primarily in the sibling
group, 85
feeling of impotence, 23, 222
function of, 420
illegitimate, 296-297
impulse for, inherent in nature of man,
202
in animals, 226
in art, 11
in France, 228-229
in French Revolution, 406-409
in the phylogenesis of man, 421-424
in pre-revolutionary phase, 399
in the process oflevelling, 210-212
in proverbs, 26-29
in social organization, 69
institutionalized, 11,57-58,73
legitimate, 229, 260, 274
limits of, 417-418
manipulation of, 238-239
methods of keeping within bounds, 302
in simple society, 57-61