#irrational_motive  a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic
  supertype:  #motivation__motive__need  the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action; the reason for the action; "we did not understand his motivation"; "he acted with the best of motives"
  subtype:  #irrational_impulse  a strong spontaneous and irrational motivation; "his first impulse was to denounce them"; "the urge to find out got him into trouble"
     subtype:  #irresistible_impulse__compulsion  an urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid
  subtype:  #mania__passion__cacoethe  an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
     subtype:  #agromania  an intense desire to be alone or out in the open
     subtype:  #dipsomania__alcoholism__potomania  an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess
     subtype:  #egomania  an intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs
     subtype:  #kleptomania  an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive
     subtype:  #logorrhea__logomania  pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking
     subtype:  #monomania__possession  a mania restricted to one thing or idea
     subtype:  #necrophilia__necromania  an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies
     subtype:  #phaneromania  an irresistible desire to pick a superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting)
     subtype:  #pyromania  an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things
     subtype:  #trichotillomania  an irresistible urge to pull out your own hair
  subtype:  #compulsion.irrational_motive__obsession  an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions against your will
     subtype:  #onomatomania  obsession with a particular word which the person uses repeatedly or which intrudes into consciousness

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