envy

• Director: Richard Ridgely
• AMG Rating:
• Genre: Drama
• Release Year: 1917
• Run Time: 5rl minutes

Plot

Envy was intended as the first of seven films based upon the Deadly Sins (much like Claude Chabrol's later filmic cycles). Farm girl Eve Leslie (Shirley Mason) falls for the line handed her by millionaire Adam Moore (George Le Guere). She enjoys her sumptuous new lifestyle but doesn't like the attentions paid by Moore to actress Betty Howard (Ann Murdock). Growing jealous of Betty, Eve suppresses her impulses to nurse her rival when it seems that Betty has but a short time to live. The story comes to a screeching halt shortly after the introduction of Betty's no-good boyfriend Stanton Skinner (Lumsden Hare); perhaps the up-in-the-air denouement was meant to segue into some sort of live-action afterpiece. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Robert Cain - Rocco Irwin; Lumsden Hare - Stanton Skinner; George Le Guere - Adam Moore; Shirley Mason - Eve Leslie; Jessie Stevens - Eue's Foster Mother; William Wadsworth - Eve's Foster Father; Ann Murdock - Betty Howard

Credit

Richard Ridgely - Director, George W. Lane - Cinematographer

n., pl., -vies.

1. 1. A feeling of discontent and resentment aroused by and in conjunction with desire for the possessions or qualities of another.
   2. The object of such feeling: Their new pool made them the envy of their neighbors.
2. Obsolete. Malevolence.

tr.v., -vied, -vy·ing, -vies.

1. To feel envy toward.
2. To regard with envy.

[Middle English envie, from Old French, from Latin invidia, from invidus, envious, from invidēre, to look at with envy : in-, in, on; see en-¹ + vidēre, to see. V., from Middle English envien, from Old French envier, from Latin invidēre.]

envier en'vi·er n.
envyingly en'vy·ing·ly adv.

SYNONYMS   envy, begrudge, covet. These verbs mean to feel resentful or painful desire for another's advantages or possessions. Envy, the most general, combines discontent, resentment, and desire: "When I peruse the conquered fame of heroes and the victories of mighty generals, I do not envy the generals" (Walt Whitman). Begrudge stresses ill will and reluctance to acknowledge another's right or claim: Why begrudge him his success? Covet stresses a secret or culpable longing for something to which one has no right: "We hate no people and covet no people's lands" (Wendell L. Willkie).

noun

Resentful or painful desire for another's advantages: covetousness, enviousness, jealousy. See desire.

verb

To feel envy towards or for: begrudge, covet, grudge. See desire.

n

Definition: jealousy
Antonyms: comfort, confidence, contentedness, generosity, good will, kindness, pleasure

v

Definition: be jealous of another
Antonyms: be confident, be content

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Envy is a primitive force in the personality that is opposed to, and therefore mounts destructive attacks upon, parts of the object felt to be good. It attacks aspects of the libido—love, constructiveness, integration—simply because of their life-giving characteristics. This notion first appears in Envy and Gratitude (Klein, 1957).

Freud was uncertain about the clinical usefulness of the concept of the death instinct. Klein found ways of showing its clinical relevance, especially in her work with children. The primary destructive force, the death instinct, aims at destroying the ego. Freud (1926) recognized that the ego needs to escape this very early experience of threat, and that it can do so by projecting the death instinct outwards. Thus the ego contrives to see the danger to itself as coming from external objects. This danger may then coincide, he thought, with some real external threat. As Klein (1932) added, the external object may be a harsh critical parent (then internalized as a persecuting superego). Then the external enemy can be attacked, as can other aspects of the death instinct turned against an external object. In both these processes of establishing outwardly directed impulses, the libido may fuse to some degree with the death instinct.

Later and in contrast with the above, Klein described a very different manifestation of death instinct: primary envy. In this instance the destructive force is directed against an external object that is not a threat but a good object, typically the mother's breast, which feeds and comforts. To the external good object is attributed a wish for life and a wish to preserve life in the ego. In this case, the good object represents a part of the libido projected into an external object. And it is attacked there by impulses derived from the death instinct now turned away from the ego itself. The death instinct, directed against those (libidinal) parts of the ego concerned with the wish to live, remains a destructive force against them when they are projected. Klein's view is a generalization and extension of Freud's notion of penis envy.

Klein developed the idea of the death instinct in terms of relations to the object and to the self. Rosenfeld (1971) described states in which the ego is dominated by aspects of the death instinct. Since Freud's theory of the death instinct was never fully accepted, Klein's idea of envy was also contentious (Joffe, 1969). Envy represents a primary kind of evil, and it is difficult often to accept such a state in an innocent infant.

Others have attributed aggression in infancy and childhood to frustration of libidinal impulses. Wilfred Bion described paroxysms of aggression arising in infants when an infant's insistent projection meets an uncontaining mother frightened by the infant's fear of death. Here the anger of frustration can appear much like envy.

Bibliography

Freud, Sigmund. (1926). Inhibitions, symptoms and anxiety. SE, 20: 75-172.

Joffe, Walter. (1969). A critical review of the envy concept. International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 50, 533-545.

Klein, Melanie. (1932). The psycho-analysis of children. London: Hogarth.

——. (1957). Envy and gratitude: A study of unconscious forces. London: Hogarth Press.

Rosenfeld, Herbert. (1971). A clinical approach to the psycho-analytic theory of the life and death instincts: An investigation into the aggressive aspects of narcissism. International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 52, 169-178.

Segal, Hanna. (1993). Review of A dictionary of Kleinian thought. International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 74, 417-419.

—ROBERT D. HINSHELWOOD

A cynical view of the world by Ambrose Bierce

n.

Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.

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IN BRIEF: Jealousy felt toward another having some thing or quality. Also: The person or thing one has jealousy about.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch. — Jim Rohn.

Quotes:

"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." - Gore Vidal

"Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied." - Mark Twain

"The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor." - Socrates

"Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes." - William Shakespeare

"They that envy others are their inferiors." - Saying

"Envy eats nothing, but its own heart." - German Proverb

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - misundelse, genstand for misundelse
v. tr. - misunde

idioms:

• be the envy of    genstand for misundelse fra

Nederlands (Dutch)
benijden, afgunst, nijd

Français (French)
n. - envie, jalousie
v. tr. - envier

idioms:

• be the envy of    faire l'envie de

Deutsch (German)
v. - beneiden
n. - Neid

idioms:

• be the envy of    beneidet werden

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - φθονώ, ζηλεύω
n. - φθόνος, ζηλοφθονία, ζήλια, αξιοζήλευτο αντικείμενο

idioms:

• be the envy of    είμαι στόχος φθόνου

Italiano (Italian)
invidiare, invidia

idioms:

• be the envy of    essere l'invidia di

Português (Portuguese)
v. - invejar
n. - inveja (f), cobiça (f)

idioms:

• be the envy of    ser motivo de inveja

Русский (Russian)
завидовать, зависть

idioms:

• be the envy of    быть предметом зависти

Español (Spanish)
n. - envidia, cosa envidiada, de mala gana
v. tr. - envidiar, tener envidia

idioms:

• be the envy of    ser la envidia de

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - avundas
n. - avundsjuka

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
羡慕, 嫉妒, 妒忌

idioms:

• be the envy of    被周围的人羡慕

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 羡慕, 嫉妒
v. tr. - 妒忌, 羡慕

idioms:

• be the envy of    被周圍的人羡慕

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 시기, 선망
v. tr. - 부러워하다, 시기하다

idioms:

• be the envy of    ~의 선망의 대상이 되다

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - うらやむ
n. - うらやみ, ねたみ, 羨望の的

idioms:

• be the envy of    羨望の的である

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) يحسد (الاسم) موضع حسد, حسد‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮קינא ב-, קנאה‬
v. tr. - ‮קינא ב-, קנאה‬

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