Narcissism in Toronto: Jones, Freud, and minor differences

The dread of sameness: social hatred and Freud’s “narcissism of minor differences”

One normally thinks that we stick together with others like us, and that we exclude others whose difference provokes antipathy towards them. I will argue that antipathy is more rooted in sameness than in difference. Consciously, we exclude others who are different, but unconsciously, we hate sameness, and avoid it by creating delusional differences. Hatred drives the projection of these delusio...

Gender Differences in Narcissism and Courtship Violence in Dating Couples

The current study explored the relationship between courtship violence and the exploitativeness/entitlement factor of overt narcissism, covert narcissism, and sexual narcissism. Data were analyzed from 63 currently dating couples on their own and partner’s aggression using the CTS2. All were white, heterosexual students from a small US college in Central Pennsylvania. An interdependence analysi...

Memory, Narcissism, and Sublimation: Reading Lou Andreas-Salomé's Freud Journal

The complete correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Ernest Jones 1908–1939

R. ANDREW PASKAUSKAS (ed.), The complete correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Ernest Jones 1908-1939, Cambridge, Mass., and London, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1993, pp. xlix, 836, £29.95 (0-674-15423-1). EVA BRABANT, ERNST FALZEDER, PATRIZIA GIAMPIERI-DEUTSCH (eds), The correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sdnder Ferenczi, 1908-14, vol. 1, transl. Peter T. Hoffer, Cambridge, M...

‘Narcissism creep?’: Evidence for Age-Related Differences in Narcissism in the New Zealand General Population

International research has suggested that levels of narcissism (excessive belief in self-worth, associated with excessive self-promotion and enhancement) vary across the lifespan, such that younger people are more narcissistic than their older forebears. Indeed, it has even been suggested that this represents a generational (rather than developmental) effect – younger people are more narcissist...