Right Man

英語（米国） (en-US) 英語（イギリス） (en-GB)

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A man driven by a manic need for self-esteem, often driven to violence: "the violent man".

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The Right Man at the meeting turned every disagreement into a test of his worth, and his desperate need for respect often erupted into violence.

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A man driven by a manic need for self-esteem, often driven to violence: "the violent man".

'[T]he violent man' or the 'Right Man' … is a man driven by a manic need for self-esteem — to feel he is a 'somebody'. He is obsessed by the question of 'losing face', so will never, under any circumstances, admit that he might be in the wrong… Equally interesting is the wild, insane jealousy. Most of us are subject to jealousy, since the notion that someone we care about prefers someone else is an assault on our amour propre. But the Right Man, whose self-esteem is like a constantly festering sore spot, flies into a frenzy at the thought, and becomes capable of murder… The Right Man problem is a problem of highly dominant people. Dominance is a subject of enormous interest to biologists and zoologists because the percentage of dominant animals — or human beings — seems to be amazingly constant. [B]iological studies have confirmed [that] for some odd reason, precisely five per cent — one in twenty — of any animal group are dominant — have leadership qualities…

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