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==Intellectual infatuations== Infatuations need not only involve people, but can extend to objects, activities, and ideas. "Men are always falling in love with other men ... with their war heroes and sport heroes":<ref>[[Carol O'Connell]], ''Flight of the Stone Angel'' (London 1997) p. 74.</ref> with institutions, discourses and [[role model]]s. Thus for example [[Jung]]'s initial {{"'}}unconditional devotion' to Freud's theories and his 'no less unconditional veneration' of Freud's person' was seen at the time by both men as a 'quasi-religious infatuation' to ... a [[cult]] object";<ref>[[Peter Gay]], ''Freud: A Life for Our Time'' (London 1989) p. 204.</ref> while Freud in turn was "very attracted by Jung's personality",<ref>[[Ernest Jones]], ''The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud'' (Penguin 1964) p. 328.</ref> perhaps "saw in Jung an idealized version of himself":<ref>[[Frank McLynn]], ''Carl Gustav Jung'' (London 1996) p. 157.</ref> a [[wiktionary:mutual admiration society|mutual admiration society]]β"intellectually infatuated with one another".<ref>Anthony Stevens, ''Jung'' (Oxford 1994) p. 12.</ref> But there are also collective infatuations: "we are all prone to being drawn into ''social phantasy systems''".<ref>[[R. D. Laing]], ''Self and Others'' (Penguin 1972) p. 38.</ref> Thus, for instance, "the recent intellectual infatuation with [[structuralism]] and [[post-structuralism]]"<ref>Sally Banes, ''Terpsichore in Sneakers'' (1980) p. xxviii.</ref> arguably lasted at least until "[[September 11 attacks|September 11]] ended intellectual infatuation with [[postmodernism]]"<ref>[[David Stoesz]], ''Quixote's Ghost'' (2005).</ref> as a whole. [[Economic bubbles]] thrive on collective infatuations of a different kind: "all boom-bust processes contain an element of misunderstanding or misconception",<ref>[[George Soros]], ''The New Paradigms for Financial Markets'' (London 2008) p. 64.</ref> whether it is the "infatuation with ... becoming the latest [[Dot-com company|dot.com]] billionaire",<ref>[[Haynes Johnson]], ''The Best of Times'' (2001) p. 25.</ref> or the one that followed with [[subprime mortgage]]s, once "[[Alan Greenspan|Greenspan]] had replaced the tech bubble with a housing bubble".<ref>[[Gregory Zuckerman]], ''[[The Greatest Trade Ever]]'' (London 2010) p. 83.</ref> As markets "swung virtually overnight from euphoria to fear" in the [[Financial crisis of 2007β2008|credit crunch]], even the most hardened [[Market fundamentalism|market fundamentalist]] had to concede that such "periodic surges of euphoria and fear are manifestations of deep-seated aspects of human nature"<ref>[[Alan Greenspan]], ''The Age of Turbulence'' (Penguin 2008) p. 520β523.</ref>βwhether these are enacted in home-room infatuations or upon the global stage.
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