56: The New Narcissism

The Psychology Podcast

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🗓️ 28 September 2016

⏱️ 45 minutes

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In everyday conversation, we use the word “narcissist” to describe our ex-lovers and the jerks we encounter on the subway, but what does it really mean? On this episode of The Psychology Podcast, Scott has a fascinating discussion with Kristin Dombek about the "new narcissism”, in which everyone is a selfish narcissist-- except ourselves. In this episode, we take a close look at how the label narcissism is used in psychology and popular culture, and how its increasing use may be a product of our modern times. We also discuss the guilt and fear associated with being labeled a narcissist, we talk about the differences between narcissism and psychopathy, and we cover an assortment of other topics including science journalism, how often we act out of character in a day, and the possibility of a “selfie apocalypse!” --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-psychology-podcast/support

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the psychology podcast with Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman where we give
0:04.5	you insights into the mind, brain, behavior, and creativity. Each episode will feature
0:09.2	a new guest who will stimulate your mind and give you a greater understanding of
0:12.4	yourself, others, and the world we live in.
0:14.4	Hopefully we'll also provide a glimpse into human possibility.
0:17.6	Thanks for listening and enjoy the podcast. cast. I'm really excited to have Kristen domic on the show today. I hope I pronounce her name correctly.
0:42.0	Kristen is an essayist and a
0:44.8	cultural journalist. Her essays have been published in the New York Times magazine, Harper's
0:49.0	magazine, the London Review of Books, N-plus One in the Paris Review, and anthologized in Best American Essays and elsewhere.
0:56.4	She received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award for a non-fiction in 2013 and her latest book which we'll be discussing today is
1:04.8	the selfishness of others an essay on the fear of narcissism. Really nice to
1:09.6	meet you Kristen. It's good to meet you too. Thank you for having me on your podcast. So I'm really excited to talk to you today about a lot of related topics that kind of all center on this idea of selfishness, but we put lots of labels on these things. So it seems like these days, as you point
1:25.1	out, every time someone's, that we perceive them as selfish, we put the label narcissism on them.
1:30.5	And you kind of refer to this as the new narcissism. Can you tell me a little bit about what this idea of the new narcissism is?
1:35.4	Well I think the new narcissism was a title that a magazine gave to.
1:40.1	Oh, so I don't know if I'm I guess what I'm trying to look at is in the context of the history of the way the word has been used in psychology and then of course you know even long before the birth of what we know in psychology by as long as goes of it you know in literature like
1:55.6	what does it mean today that this word seems to be like the popular insult for
2:00.5	someone who you know we want to name is selfish.
2:03.4	So I guess we might compare it to a religious word,
2:07.5	which would, you know, might be wicked, right?
2:09.5	Or even evil.
2:11.4	But now, you know, when I hear my friends like condemning an ex-boyfriend
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