He was infantile, narcissistic, driven, unreasonable and, at times, brilliantly irrational. |
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By mid-career, he was a narcissistic, dandiacal poseur, although Kelly finds it hard to see him as such. |
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Some may criticize the promposal as yet another narcissistic display by a generation that constantly needs to be reassured how special they are. |
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On the contrary, ethics is determinately particularistic, at times veering dangerously close to narcissistic. |
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Are we all egocentric, narcissistic online exhibitionists who believe our lives are so important that they deserve to be publicised? |
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Everything we experience is normally experienced from an egoistic or narcissistic point of view. |
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People with narcissistic personality disorder may benefit from group therapy. |
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He is a tyrannical, dogmatic and highly narcissistic dictator who has no intentions of going down quietly. |
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Head there during the day, and you will think you are in some kind of narcissistic, hedonistic dreamland. |
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Men tended to utilize the anaclitic choice, Freud thought, and women tend toward the narcissistic. |
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The local Congressman is an embodiment of this narcissistic style, and of the sort of Babbittry that accompanies it. |
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Self-awareness is precious, and it is not abundant in our generation, which all too often substitutes a narcissistic self-centeredness. |
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Most metafiction tends towards narcissistic tail-chasing, but let's keep going. |
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And he did the right thing, distancing himself from this highly narcissistic pastor. |
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All of the shooters may have felt the desire to defend narcissistic views of themselves and had very low self-esteem. |
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Not surprisingly, the most narcissistic elements in apocalyptic belief require of the individual the most radical forms of self-loss. |
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But a blind spot around narcissistic vulnerability is perhaps the surest sign of extreme narcissistic vulnerability. |
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The narcissistic presumption of centrality that underpins paranoia here gives birth to semiotic solipsism. |
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But I have to take issue about the supposed diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder. |
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Evidence points to the common existence of narcissistic personality characteristics and impulse control problems in pathologic gamblers. |
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For instance, drug-using mothers have been characterized as egocentric with a narcissistic orientation toward their children. |
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Another way that vloggers utilize their sites is to indulge in a natural narcissistic tendency by centering their vlogs on themselves. |
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And you risk being labeled as having a narcissistic or histrionic personality disorder. |
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People with narcissistic personality disorder have an inflated sense of their own importance and an extreme preoccupation with themselves. |
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That made her much more formidable an adversary because she didn't have the usual narcissistic vanity. |
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And yet, for some reason, we're largely aimless, apathetic, and narcissistic. |
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If you find this sort of thing revolting and repugnantly narcissistic, you are small-minded and stupid. |
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Narcissism and narcissistic identification both involve phantasies of power, omnipotence, mastery and control. |
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This more conventional, male-dominated reading is nevertheless subverted by each woman's narcissistic self-absorption. |
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It brings us back to the heightened state of narcissistic injury, which brooks no logic, reason or mollification. |
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Intensely narcissistic people often live tumultuous lives, as few people can tolerate them for long. |
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Young narcissistic adults tend to be ostracized and shunned by peers and colleagues. |
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His narcissistic lover cautions him against his charity towards his neighbours across the hallway. |
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This finding refutes the common stereotype of the narcissistic woman with breast implants. |
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But where else, you may ask, can one go to see shallow, narcissistic pop stars rip off articles of clothing? |
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Towards the end of the film, his buff, clueless, completely narcissistic character became less amusing and more annoying. |
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The other film goddesses were narcissistic, neurotic, concerned about no one except themselves. |
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She said that the media unfairly depicts celebrities who are publicly involved with politics as narcissistic. |
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There's a personality type in guys she's been attracted to in the past where they turn out to be far more narcissistic than they initially seem. |
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Thirteen years ago I met a materialistic, narcissistic, superficial, bosomy woman from Long Island. |
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He later identifies that pathological disposition as a form of obsessional neurosis tinged with narcissistic tendencies. |
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In addition, they describe the treatment of various narcissistic, anxiety, and dissociative syndromes. |
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Food is a fixation here, as it is in bourgeois culture in general, because it is an easily manipulated projection of narcissistic ego. |
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He convincingly argues that the protagonist suffers from a narcissistic disorder that structures her personality. |
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We also see that perversion is one manifestation of this narcissistic organisation within an individual. |
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I also suffer from the narcissistic delusion that my hang-ups are so uniquely complex that no therapist could possibly know how to deal with me. |
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In looking specifically at masculinity in this context, I want to examine the process of narcissistic identification in more detail. |
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The narcissistic involvement with the self and the inability to connect with others are lovingly portrayed in comically caricatured extremes. |
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You are the classic narcissistic misfit, blinded by outrage over your own inconsequentialness. |
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And yet, he went on to argue mischievously, are we not the victims of a comparably narcissistic delusion? |
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True to his narcissistic nature, Dorian is much more enamoured of himself than anyone around him. |
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Her speciality is pulchritudinous young womanhood winsomely awallow in narcissistic melancholy. |
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But it might just produce some of the more narcissistic and voyeuristic tech imaginable. |
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Theodor Adorno recognized long ago that mass culture represents the narcissistic personality taken to the cultural level. |
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The real escalation is in our narcissistic preoccupation with ourselves. |
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Little did I know that inside this self-doubting shell, there's this little narcissistic monster. |
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Or maybe I'm just getting off on the whole narcissistic power trip. |
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The great criminal and the humorist compel our interest by the narcissistic self-importance with which they manage to keep at arm's length everything which would diminish the importance of their ego. |
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Namely, that we are narcissistic, entitled, financial drains on our parents, unable to emancipate, and excessively solipsistic. |
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He is a narcissistic rogue who is utterly convinced of his own brilliance and superiority to those around him. |
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And like so many of this decade's most infamous terrorists and murderers, his theatrical crimes suggest he was pathologically narcissistic. |
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Freud postulated a narcissistic stage of emotional development, or primary narcissism, which precedes any investment of libido in objects other than the self. |
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This is a very narcissistic posture that does not allow anyone outside the elite to judge them. |
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But the angry reaction to her comments rose to a new level today with blogs on the left and right accusing her of being self-centred and narcissistic. |
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The result was an explosive, narcissistic clash between the two in which others, whose mere presence was a problem, were pushed away. |
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Now if you think this is all narcissistic and delectably open to viciousness, please read on. |
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The narcissistic quest for health through austere regimes of diet and exercise, abstinence and discipline reflects a denial of the inevitability of death. |
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Do you have suggestions for a person who has a narcissistic parent and a borderline spouse? |
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In this innovative book, the author proposes strategies to help a person deal with narcissistic behaviour and emerge unscathed. |
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These concerns are not essentially narcissistic and not necessarily anti-analytical in the sense that made Freud pessimistic about the curability of narcissists. |
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Or a couple of dark clouds that insinuate the threat of war into their narcissistic lives. |
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Somehow I think unsung social workers can reach out to the poor and downtrodden better than narcissistic guys who have gotten too much attention in the first place. |
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Certain sentences and paragraphs capture a self-awareness that is more insightful than obnoxious or narcissistic. |
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In Traveling Mercies, she demonstrates a unique ability to lay bare her soul even its ugliest parts without ever coming off as narcissistic or solipsistic. |
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The role of rock singer demands an acceptance if not an embrace of exhibitionism, which necessarily has a narcissistic component that the role encourages. |
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But as stimulus goes, the I-stimulus strikes me as a pretty narcissistic and ephemeral one. |
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Somebody who has a narcissistic personality disorder would be so extremely egocentric that other people would find it very difficult to tolerate being with them. |
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The absurdly successful Gwyn Barry is a hilarious take on middlebrow, narcissistic celebrity authors. |
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How short-sighted, irresponsible and narcissistic of people to have so many kids. |
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Thus, the cynical drive toward deconstruction itself can be seen as a narcissistic mechanism that flows from bitter childhood disappointment and traumatic disillusionment. |
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America is a narcissistic and inward-looking society at the best of the times. |
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The yogi contemplating his navel often figures for Westerners as an object of amusement, being taken as a symptom of indolence or narcissistic self-absorption. |
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Unfortunately the music show dissipated into a narcissistic auto-tuned rant. |
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This is a terrible insight with which to confront our narcissistic self-esteem. |
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Does this make the work narcissistic, a strictly personal quest? |
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These indications can be related to psychological disturbance, which had its source in an enmeshment of narcissistic bonds in the Ruskin family. |
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And you thought wearing sheer Lululemons to yoga was narcissistic. |
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He knows how to be a narcissistic fighter and an oedipal fighter. |
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People with narcissistic personality disorder usually have very low self-esteem and base all their self-worth on how much attention they get. |
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Riley's sardony preserves the duplicity, the netherness, the not-me of the narcissistic identification. |
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Examine how narcissism can affect leaders and see what can be done to mitigate narcissistic tendencies. |
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Through a striking finding, scientists have created and validated a method in order to identify which people are narcissistic. |
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Perhaps there's something unhealthy and narcissistic, perhaps even posthumously vengeful, in this presentation of his mother's innermost self to the world. |
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It's not just the tiresomeness of the narcissistic contestants that's the problem – you'd expect nothing less as many others have already pointed out – it's that the whole format is shot to pieces. |
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In addition to the absent encounter between fathers, an obsession with narcissistic wholeness also dominates accounts by adoptive fathers. |
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And when a woman who wants to be a Transformational Wife merges with a man who calls himself a Transformational Figure, you can expect a narcissistic blastoff. |
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The mirror-walled city discotheques provid ed a spatial equivalent to the narcissistic dances that John Travolta had performed so inimitably as film hero Tony Manero. |
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Many narcissistic traits mirror attributes considered strong leadership material, such as social dominance, extroversion, and high self-esteem. |
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Modern society has led women to define themselves in this way, they have no option but to subscribe to this culture, their own narcissistic evolution is conditioned. |
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In a narcissistic kind of way, I might say that I played a part in it. |
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Associates may not like them and may even view them as narcissistic, but self-enhancers tend to deal with loss more effectively than the general population. |
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Depending on how they use media, people can grow in sympathy and compassion or become isolated in a narcissistic, self-referential world of stimuli with near-narcotic effects. |
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I also run into situations where a narcissistic boss destroys morale. |
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The earlier exhortation is very insightful in the ways it dissects the pathologies of religious life, such as extreme pietism which is indifferent to the real world, or narcissistic obsession with liturgical detail. |
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Whenever Nate tires of one, there always seems to be another to take her place, ready to be wooed with talk of Svevo or Bernhard. Nate is a proper 21st-century scoundrel: sensitive, self-justifying and narcissistic. |
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For all her insight into the challenges and excellence of her own work, it's still hard to imagine the real-life Emilie Dequenne as a narcissistic self-harmer or child-killer. |
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Psychiatrists did not find that he had paranoid schizophrenia, as first thought, but several disorders, most notably an extreme narcissistic personality disorder. |
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Matters were complicated even further when both entities involved in the conflict adopted a narcissistic and completely closed-off stance which precluded any encroachment by others. |
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The narcissistic wound with which the 'ill' child must cope in the course of growing up is even more difficult to bear than that of a healthy child. |
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This point affects the familial and personal dynamics of each parent as it activates, from case to case, the parental narcissistic wound and the self-esteem, calling up feelings of guilt and sufferings. |
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Tennant is excellent as a narcissistic Richard, though it was some of the supporting characters who gave the best performances of the night. |
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Should addiction, or narcissistic personality disorder? |
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Experience with narcissistic personality disorder and O. C. D. a plus. |
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It may be dismissed by some as the narcissistic ranting of privileged Ivy League New Agers. |
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Psychoanalytic therapist Shaw discusses narcissism as a relational phenomenon, building off of previous work characterizing the narcissistic bent of many cult leaders. |
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She wondered whether excessive viewing of reality TV shows might normalize narcissistic behaviors and contribute to a higher prevalence of narcissistic tendencies. |
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Hence, the recovery of the boy's primary narcissism through the ideal ego is now a heterosexist as well as a desexualised version of that previous narcissistic stage. |
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Theoretically, it seems possible that the narcissistic patient did not enter or complete the rapprochement crisis and that the omnipotent unity still exists intrapsychically. |
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American spirituality has been shaped and practiced in an environment of utilitarian salvationism, of narcissistic abandon and transcendental egoism. |
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But in this more narcissistic Internet era, people who were once happily anonymous view themselves as online minicelebrities with their own brands to promote. |
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