Thursday, February 26, 2015








Narcissism is the pursuit of gratification from vanity or egotistic appreciation of one's very own attributes. The term stemmed from the Greek mythology, where the young Narcissus dropped in love with his very own image mirrored in a pool of water.

Narcissism is a concept in psychoanalytic theory, introduced in Sigmund Freud's On Narcissism. The American Psychiatric Association has the category narcissistic personality ailment in its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).

Narcissism is also considered a cultural or social problem. It is a consider quality theory used in some self-report supplies of personality such as the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory. It is just one of the 3 dark triadic individuality qualities (the others being psychopathy and Machiavellianism).

Except in the sense of primary vanity or healthy self-love, vanity is usually considered a problem in an individual or group's relationships with self and others. Narcissism is not the very same as egocentrism.

The idea of vanity is used in transformative psychology in regard to the systems of assortative mating, or the non-random choice of a companion for functions of procreation.

Evidence for assortative breeding among humans is well established; humans mate assortatively regarding age, IQ, height, weight, nationality, work and academic degree, bodily and personality characteristics, and family relatedness. In the "self looking for like" theory, individuals subconsciously look for a mirror image of themselves in others, looking for standards of elegance or reproductive fitness in the context of self-reference.

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