'Amidst their spectacle of untidiness, hoarders suffer greatly and cause suffering in those with whom they live.' Here's a deeper look at the psychology behind hoarding.
Hoarding involves excessive accumulation and an inability to discard possessions, including useless items like trash.
"The Skeleton of Death With the Antiquarian Hoarder," by English artist Thomas Rowlandson. From The English Dance of Death, Ackermann, London, 1816.Nikolai Gogol’s protagonist Chichikov travels from one small village in mid-19th century Russia to another, systematically collecting the names of dead souls. These are serfs who have perished since the last census but remain on the roster of their landowners .
Gogol provides a textbook description of a hoarder: Plushkin seems unable to discard anything, including a used toothpick with which he had cleaned his teeth"at least before the coming of the French to Moscow."
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