A god complex is an unshakable belief characterized by consistently inflated feelings of personal ability, privilege, or infallibility.
[2] Someone with a god complex may exhibit no regard for the conventions and demands of society, and may request special consideration or privileges.
The recognized diagnostic name for the behaviors associated with a god complex is narcissistic personality disorder (NPD).
[4] Jehovah complex is a related term used in Jungian analysis to describe a neurosis of egotistical self-inflation.
Use included in psychoanalytic contributions to psychohistory and biography, with, for example, Fritz Wittels using the term about Sigmund Freud in his 1924 biography[5] and H. E. Barnes using the term about George Washington and Andrew Jackson.