Editing Icarus (section)

== Interpretation ==
[[File:'The Fall of Icarus', 17th century, Musée Antoine Vivenel.JPG|thumb|17th-century [[relief]] with a [[Labyrinth|Cretan labyrinth]] bottom right ''([[Musée Antoine Vivenel]])'']]

Literary interpretation has considered the myth of Icarus as a consequence of excessive ambition.<ref>Jacob E. Nyenhuis – Myth and the creative process: Michael Ayrton and the myth of Daedalus, the maze maker – 345 pages [https://books.google.com/books?id=WQlh9oV5PywC&dq=Henry+Murray+Icarus+complex&pg=PA48 Wayne State University Press, 2003] Retrieved 24 January 2012 {{ISBN|0-8143-3002-9}} 
See also Harry Levin, The Overreacher, Harvard University Press, 1952 [https://archive.org/details/overreacherstudy0000levi]</ref> An Icarus-related study of the [[Daedalus]] myth was published by the French [[Hellenic studies|hellenist]] {{ill|Françoise Frontisi-Ducroux|fr|Françoise Frontisi-Ducroux|lt=Françoise Frontisi-Ducroux.}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Frontisi-Ducroux|first=Françoise|title=Dédale: Mythologie de l'artisan en Grèce Ancienne|date=1975|publisher=François Maspero|location=Paris|pages=227}}</ref> In psychology, there have been synthetic studies of the ''Icarus complex'' with respect to the alleged relationship between fascination for fire, [[enuresis]], high ambition, and Ascensionism.<ref>{{cite book|last=Wiklund|first=Nils|title=The icarus complex|date=1978|publisher=Doxa|location=Lund|isbn=91-578-0064-2}}</ref> In the psychiatric mind, features of disease were perceived in the shape of the pendulous emotional ecstatic-''high'' and depressive-''low'' of bipolar disorder. [[Henry Murray]] having proposed the term ''Icarus complex'', apparently found symptoms particularly in mania where a person is fond of heights, fascinated by both fire and water, ''[[narcissism|narcissistic]]'' and observed with fantastical or ''far-fetched imaginary'' cognition.<ref>Michael Sperber 2010 – Dostoyevsky's Stalker and Other Essays on Psychopathology and the Arts, University Press of America, 2010, p. 166 ff, [https://books.google.com/books?id=W8v8hfkM5skC] {{ISBN|0-7618-4993-9}}</ref><ref>Pendulum – ''The BiPolar Organisation's'' quarterly journal [http://www.mdf.org.uk/?o=56962 Bipolar UK] Retrieved 24 January 2012.</ref> [[Seth Godin]]'s 2012 ''The Icarus Deception,'' points to the historical change in how Western culture both propagated and interpreted the Icarus myth arguing that "We tend to forget that Icarus was also warned not to fly too low, because seawater would ruin the lift in his wings. Flying too low is even more dangerous than flying too high, because it feels deceptively safe."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Godin |first=Seth |url=https://www.amazon.com/Icarus-Deception-How-High-Will-ebook/dp/B0090UOLEW |title=The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly? |date=2012 |publisher=Portfolio |edition=1st |language=en}}</ref> Each study and analysis of the myth agrees Icarus was too ambitious for his own good.