Yoda Complex

a delusional mental disorder in Darwinian circles characterized by imagining oneself on an exalted plane that exempts oneself from the evolutionary forces to which other humans are subject; e.g., an evolutionist who speaks as if he were a rational scientist with free will while claiming evolution destroys free will. The patient feels immune from the evolutionary forces he claims cause other humans’ behavior; e.g., one who uses rational arguments to claim all human behavior (except his own reasoning) is explained by evolutionary game theory. He imagines himself to be a kind of exalted master, an Enlightened One on an alternate plane of reality, like the green god of Yoda in Star Wars with pointy ears (and a pointy head), presuming to talk down to the rest of humanity. Source: 9/25/06.