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Are We Too Quick to Call Everyday A$$holes Narcissists?
Posted on 8/17/16 at 9:05 am
Posted on 8/17/16 at 9:05 am
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Just because you're an a$$hole you are not clinically a narcissist.
VICE: It seems the label "narcissist" is more ubiquitous than ever, used to describe every power-hungry egomaniac.
Kristin Dombek: My hunch is that the popularity of the word, as an insult, or a citizen diagnosis, these days, is partly about a fear of the internet itself, where it spreads. About how we have to deal with so many people so quickly, without being able to test who they are behind the images and words they put online.
More generally, the commonness of the term these days is an example of the dominance of psychological language in our everyday ways of relating to others and thinking about ethical problems. It worries me that we've come to use psychological diagnosis in a very unexamined way in everyday conversation, as if it's scripture, as if its categories are clear and true and we can just fit people into them. Historically, that kind of language has often had an agenda, under the surface.
Just because you're an a$$hole you are not clinically a narcissist.
VICE: It seems the label "narcissist" is more ubiquitous than ever, used to describe every power-hungry egomaniac.
Kristin Dombek: My hunch is that the popularity of the word, as an insult, or a citizen diagnosis, these days, is partly about a fear of the internet itself, where it spreads. About how we have to deal with so many people so quickly, without being able to test who they are behind the images and words they put online.
More generally, the commonness of the term these days is an example of the dominance of psychological language in our everyday ways of relating to others and thinking about ethical problems. It worries me that we've come to use psychological diagnosis in a very unexamined way in everyday conversation, as if it's scripture, as if its categories are clear and true and we can just fit people into them. Historically, that kind of language has often had an agenda, under the surface.
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Posted on 8/17/16 at 9:09 am to HornsLife
Meh..,,maybe some overlap between the two but being an a-hole is a very complex diagnosis I don't think one term clearly defines it
Posted on 8/17/16 at 9:12 am to HornsLife
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It worries me that we've come to use psychological diagnosis in a very unexamined way in everyday conversation, as if it's scripture, as if its categories are clear and true and we can just fit people into them. Historically, that kind of language has often had an agenda, under the surface.
I'd bet the bank she thinks every ADHD and Aspergers diagnosis is legit too.
Posted on 8/17/16 at 9:12 am to HornsLife
F you a-hole.
Posted on 8/17/16 at 9:13 am to HornsLife
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Are We Too Quick to Call Everyday A$$holes Narcissists?
I think a major problem is that we demonize traits that exist within every human based on biology and evolution. Including narcissism, tribalism, etc...ITS frickING SCIENCE PEOPLE
Posted on 8/17/16 at 9:15 am to HornsLife
Pretty much. Its like how we call people psychopaths. People will call people this just because they do something "crazy". It has skewed people's definition of the word.
Posted on 8/17/16 at 9:16 am to HornsLife
It's like calling everyone a racist; we aren't.
Posted on 8/17/16 at 9:24 am to HornsLife
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Kristin Dombek: My hunch is that the popularity of the word, as an insult, or a citizen diagnosis, these days, is partly about a fear of the internet itself, where it spreads.
This is actually spot on. It's liken to how people use Darwinism here when they have no clue what it really means.
Posted on 8/17/16 at 9:29 am to HornsLife
Lol. Narcissism is usually not a clear cut "diagnosis ". I hate how psychology likes to "diagnose" people with mental disorders, thus enabling them to see the disorder as something they can't change or help because it's a "sickness".
Maybe big pharma backs these ideas.
Maybe big pharma backs these ideas.
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