Encyclopedia > Narcissism

  Article Content

Narcissism

Narcissism involves "excessive" pre-occupation with the self, an overdose on self-esteem.

Sigmund Freud identified narcissism as a stage or a socio-pathology, naming the phenomenon after the figure of Narcissus in Greek mythology.

Extreme narcissism, or narcissistic personality disorder, may exemplify those types of mental affliction which "infect" other people near the sufferer and spread as a memetic world view.

One could characterise extreme nationalism, jingoism or even chauvinism as collective narcissisms.

See also Inverted narcissists, Narcissistic personality disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Pathological narcissism

some of which are to be merged.



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Kings Park, New York

... it is water. The total area is 6.21% water. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there are 16,146 people, 5,480 households, and 4,197 families residing in the town. ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 27.9 ms