characteriology

Synonym of characterology.

Both in the realm of geometry and in that of characteriology, the formation of wholes proceeds according to definite laws, and it follows, therefore, that wholes are easily grasped by us.

We must thank the work of the Dutch, German, and English psychologists for the fact that characteriology is not based on vague literary considerations, but solid scientific foundation.

Synonym of characterology.

By temperament, he was what the old characteriology would call a "choleric."

This characteriology, coming out of the typology of Lecène and broadened by the morphopsychological studies of Louis Corman, allows him to deepen the study of psychological types and creation myths in literary works.

The description of someone or something in terms of character traits.

This 'cultivated characteriology' (ibid., p. 117) is one that she suggests has been reduced to the cult of the theorist's personality in many of the hagiographies written about Foucault, missing how he cultivated his ethos or characteriology in order to persuade, seduce, unsettle, question, and so forth. She suggests that the enactment of characteriology as a form of argumentation is usually psychologized and quickly reduces to mood or personality traits, 'haunting the debate through strange displaced appearances, as when a pragmatist is called smug' (ibid., p. 128).

Thus a characteriology of walls must be supplemented with an analysis of territories. So, for instance, the evilness of walls (they are ignorant, arrogant, unjust) and the vanity of walls (they are never as effective as dreamt by their builders) should be reconstructed on the basis of the multiple territorialisations of the actors that come to be associated with each single wall, as well as affected by it (on its two or more sides).