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narcissism

[nahr-suh-siz-em] / ˈnɑr səˌsɪz ɛm /


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S Mark Young, a professor at the University of Southern California and author of The Mirror Effect: How Celebrity Narcissism is Seducing America, says Federline's book is unlikely to change people's minds about her.

From BBC • Oct. 24, 2025

Narcissism comes with the territory of memoirs; modest people don’t bare their souls to the world.

From Washington Post • Feb. 2, 2023

Narcissism, ambition and flagrant disregard for others in service of art is perhaps only enviable in the abstract.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2022

Narcissism makes us part ways with reason, truth and reality itself, and instead create self-aggrandizing myths about our existence.

From Salon • Oct. 5, 2020

By Narcissism is meant the formulation that a new development is taking place in the infantile Oedipus fantasy.

From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various




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