English Dictionary

wendigo psychosis

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈwɛndɪɡəʊ saɪˈkəʊsɪs/

名詞

不可算名詞

(psychology) A psychological condition specific to some Native American groups, in which a person in fever-induced delusions believes that he or she is possessed by a cannibalistic wendigo spirit, or in which members of the groups hysterically believe a person to be so possessed.

日本語の意味

ある先住民集団に特有の心理状態で、発熱による妄想に陥り、自身が人食いのウィンディゴの霊に取り憑かれていると信じる、または集団内の他者がそのように信じられる状態

The anthropologist wrote a sensitive account of a man suffering from wendigo psychosis, describing both the cultural context and the tragic consequences.

その人類学者は、ある男性が先住アメリカ諸族に特有の、カニバリズムの精霊に取り憑かれたと信じる妄想的な精神障害に苦しんだ経緯を、文化的背景と悲劇的な結果の両面から繊細に記述した。

意味（1）

(psychology) A psychological condition specific to some Native American groups, in which a person in fever-induced delusions believes that he or she is possessed by a cannibalistic wendigo spirit, or in which members of the groups hysterically believe a person to be so possessed.

Windigo psychosis has been the most celebrated culture trait of the Northern Algonkian peoples for almost half a century. […] The conclusion reached is that, although aspects of the windigo belief complex may have been components in some individuals' psychological dysfunction (Preston 1980: 128), there probably never were any windigo psychotics in the sense that cannibalism or murder was committed to satisfy an obsessional craving for human flesh. It is argued, rather that windigo psychosis as an etic/behavioral form of anthropophagy is an artifact of research conducted with an emic/mental bias.