Editing Superiority complex (section)

==Cultural examples==
*Driven to achieve in order to overcompensate his humble origins, and small stature,<ref>{{cite book |first=J. |last=Richardson |title=A Life of Picasso, Vol. I: The Early Years, 1881-1906 |location=[[London]]|publisher=[[Pimlico (publishing imprint) | Pimlico]] |date=1992 |isbn=9780394531922 |pages=48–49}}</ref> [[Picasso]] was described by his former partner, [[Fernande Olivier]], as possessing a superiority complex: "He said he could only be touched by things to  which he felt superior".<ref>Quoted in {{cite book |first=J. |last=Richardson |title=A Life of Picasso, Vol. II: The Cubist Rebel: 1907-1916 |location=[[London]]|publisher=[[Pimlico (publishing imprint) | Pimlico]] |date=1996 |isbn=9780375711503 |page=189}}</ref>
*[[Beethoven]]'s nobility pretence was the result of a superiority complex;<ref>{{cite book |first=Max |last=Graf |author-link=Max Graf |title=From Beethoven to Shostakovich: The psychology of the composing process |date=1947 |location=[[New York City | New York]] |publisher=[[Philosophical Library]]}}</ref> but it was the same complex that fuelled his extraordinary musical achievements. As [[Ernst Bloch]] said of the young musician's boastful claims, "This piece of presumption was needed to enable him to become Beethoven".<ref>Quoted in {{cite book |first=Maynard |last=Solomon |title=Beethoven Essays |publisher=[[Harvard University Press]] |date=1988 |isbn=9780674063778|page=55}}</ref>