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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop - Freud coined the phrase "narcissism of small differences" in a paper titled "The Taboo of Virginity" that he published in 1917.
The psychoanalyst contended that human beings express their most virulent hatred toward those who are just slightly different from themselves. This is because slight differences pose a greater psychological threat to ones core sense of self (ergo: narcissism) than those who are extremely different from ourselves.
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It's nice to know among the myriad variations of narcissism from which I unquestionably suffer I am spared at least one.
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Last edited by sebastian_dangerfield; 05-19-2007 at 01:59 PM..
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