{"id":61643,"date":"2018-10-07T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-06T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/10\/07\/how-self-love-got-out-of-control\/"},"modified":"2018-10-07T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T23:05:00","slug":"how-self-love-got-out-of-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=61643","title":{"rendered":"How self-love got out of control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media, reality TV, politics \u2026 has narcissism become the new normal?Once upon a time, Love Island contestant Adam Collard would simply have been called a player. His knack for pitting young women against each other, which provided much of the drama on this year\u2019s series of the dating reality show, might well have been controversial; he might conceivably have been accused of vanity, for flashing his six-pack. But what was new and striking this summer was the furious debate among viewers over whether he could fairly be called a narcissist.A century after Freud wrote his essay On Narcissism, identifying a form of self-adoration prompted by viewing oneself as an object of sexual desire, the term has filtered right down from psychology textbooks into casual everyday conversation. Like \u201cgaslighting\u201d \u2013 which evolved from a reference to a Hitchcock film, to a form of emotional abuse identified by domestic violence specialists, to a word flung around with pretty wild abandon \u2013 its meaning has stretched sometimes to breaking point along the way. But it clearly fills a contemporary need. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/2018\/oct\/07\/how-self-love-got-out-of-control-the-rise-of-narcissism-politics\" target=\"_blank\">How self-love got out of control<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media, reality TV, politics \u2026 has narcissism become the new normal?Once upon a time, Love Island contestant Adam Collard would simply have been called a player. His knack for pitting young women against each other, which provided much of the drama on this year\u2019s series of the dating reality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}