captain ahab's focus narrowing

language: es

definitions

  1. A state of intense, monomaniacal obsession where an individual becomes so preoccupied with a single goal or object that they lose perspective and ignore all other concerns; a metaphor derived from the character Captain Ahab in Herman Melville's 'Moby-Dick'.
    es: Obsesión monomaníaca

examples

  1. The scientist's research became a case of captain Ahab's focus narrowing, as he ignored all ethical implications for the sake of his discovery.

    La investigación del científico se convirtió en una obsesión tipo Ahab, ya que ignoró todas las implicaciones éticas en aras de su descubrimiento.