But of course there is no contingency in novels, only writing and plot, and the point of this twist of events, I think, has less to do with punishment of any kind, of the self or of others, than with what the narrator calls the "monothematic" nature of pain and humiliation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ian McEwan's 'Solar': The Fat Man's Vengeance (New York Review)] Reference

This impairment is the same in all people with monothematic delusions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Delusion] Reference

“Schizophrenia and monothematic delusions,” Schizophrenia Bulletin, 33 (3).    From Wordnik.com.  [Delusion] Reference

Other examples of monothematic delusions often referred to in the philosophical literature are Capgras and Cotard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Delusion] Reference

By reference to monothematic delusions, Max Coltheart explains the two main factors involved in the formation of delusions as follows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Delusion] Reference

There are three types: monothematic, polythematic with different points, varying in number from three to 11, and polythematic with the reappearance of earlier points.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

In counter point, can you cite examples where a third party candidate with a monothematic platform received a significant percentage of the vote and one or both of the major parties did not adjust their platforms accordingly?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Third-Party Voting « Lean Left] Reference

Thus, a person who systematically fails to recognize her image in the mirror and comes to think that there is a person identical to her following her around (as in mirrored-self misidentification), but has no other unusual beliefs, has a monothematic delusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Delusion] Reference

And I believe it was the first monothematic film score.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper] Reference

Considering that the monothematic Green party can mainly be just a temporary shelter for dissatisfied Liberal and NDP voters, the answer is restricted to these two parties and, in a two-party system, one of them will go.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Stories - Google News] Reference

The top-down thesis about delusion formation has been proposed especially for monothematic delusions such as Capgras (Campbell 2001; Eilan 2000) and for delusions of passivity, when people report that there are external influences on their thoughts and actions (Sass 1994; Graham and Stephens 1994.    From Wordnik.com.  [Delusion] Reference

"In Greece there is no monothematic campaigns.    From Wordnik.com.  [LA IMC] Reference