<unk>  (from , , ; and , , ), also known as scribomania, is an obsessive impulse to write. When used in a specific psychiatric context, it labels a morbid mental condition which results in writing rambling and confused statements, often degenerating into a meaningless succession of words or even nonsense then called graphorrhea (see hypergraphia). The term<unk> " was used in the early 19th century by Esquirol and later by Eugen Bleuler, becoming more or less common.<unk>  is related to typomania, which is obsessiveness with seeing one's name in publication or with writing for being published, excessive symbolism or typology. Outside the psychiatric definitions of<unk>  and related conditions, the word is used more broadly to label the urge and need to write excessively, professionally or not. Max Nordau, in his attack of what he saw as degenerate art, frequently used the term<unk> " to label the production of the artists he condemned (most notably Richard Wagner or the French symbolist poets). Milan Kundera, in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979), explains proliferation of non-professional writing as follows: Czesław Miłosz--winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980--used the term<unk> " in a context much different than Kundera's. In The Captive Mind (1951), Miłosz wrote that the typical writer in the Eastern Bloc who accepted socialist realism "believes that the by-ways of 'philosophizing' lead to a greater or lesser degree of<unk> . Anyone gripped in the claws of dialectics the philosophy of dialectical materialism is forced to admit that the thinking of private philosophers, unsupported by citations failing to regurgigate Stalinist propaganda, is sheer nonsense."
Graphomania
Distichia
Klazomania
Onychotillomania
Potomania
Amenomania
Amaurosis
Machiavellianism