Robert Raskin and Calvin Hall designed a test for it where subjects choose between statements like "Compliments embarrass me" and "I like to be complimented.
The nature of this condition was debated by Heinz Kohut and Otto Kernberg. In an essay on this condition, a University of Rochester historian describes how "the happy hooker" replaced Horatio Alger as the image of success. Robert Raskin and Calvin Hall designed a test for it where subjects choose between statements like "Compliments embarrass me" and "I like to be complimented." In a book subtitled American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations, Christopher Lasch argued that postwar America is defined by a "culture of" this condition. Sigmund Freud's 1914 paper On this conditon popularized its name, and DSM-5 includes "largely superficial" relationships and a "pervasive pattern of grandiosity" among its indicators. For 10 points, name this disorder of excessive vanity, named for a man from Greek myth.
The nature of this condition was debated by Heinz Kohut and Otto Kernberg.
narcissism [or narcissistic personality disorder; or pathological narcissism; or cultural narcissism; prompt on reasonable synonyms such as "egocentrism" or "megalomania" until "Diminishing" is read