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Sigmund Freud (1914/1959) used the term “narcissism” to describe a universal psychological mechanism of self-love and self-absorption. But narcissism is also a trait, a personality characteristic that varies from one person to another and that can work either for people or against them.
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Paris, J. (2013). Narcissism: Individual and Cultural. In: Psychotherapy in an Age of Narcissism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137291394_6
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