INFLATION
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':[22] with institutions, discourses and role models. Thus for example
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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';[23] while Freud in turn was 'very attracted by Jung's personality',[24] perhaps 'saw in Jung an idealized version of himself':[25] a mutual admiration society—'intellectually infatuated with one another'.[26]
A woman too might have 'had a hankering for one guru after another...she loved being a pupil.'[27]
But there are also collective infatuations: 'we are all prone to being drawn into social phantasy systems '.[28] Thus for instance 'the recent intellectual infatuation with structuralism and post-structuralism
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