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Usually elation is accompanied by exaltation, by which is meant, as already explained, overestimation of one's own powers and qualities, physical, mental, or moral. The distinction between elation and exaltation has never hitherto been made, partly because they usually, though, as we have seen, not always, occur together, and partly because psychological analysis of the disordered mind has never hitherto been attempted. The exaltation that accompanies elation is less often confined to a single ...level of subjective thought, or self- estimation, than the abasement that accompanies dysphoria. Abasement is often limited for a time, or throughout the malady, to underestimation of possession, and delusions of poverty may exist for years unaccompanied by underestimation of mental, physical, or moral qualities ; but overestimation is rarely limited to one level. The megalomaniac who believes that he pos- sesses millions of money and extravagant titles, believes also that he has superhuman strength, perhaps that he has several bodies, hundreds and thousands of children, intellectual genius such as the world never saw, and moral worth unspeakably great.
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