Greetings Economists, Remember that a narcissist is a personality disorder. Where disorder refers to how relating to others is disrupted. On Sep 12, 2006, at 10:45 AM, Jim Devine wrote:
you are my Echo.
Doyle; That's a disability not really much of a choice. There's a tendency in some of the left to refer to social types of some capitalist individuals as narcissists. Since a disability is not the same as a class position it's dangerous to assume that social change would have any effect upon a 'disorders'. Some disorders like Post Traumatic Stress Disorder are clearly made by significant stress like the battlefield. Narcissism is similarly probably a response to social structure imbalance but the possible association is not set, and in an over all sense resembles obsession which is not so much a response to the world but how the brain equates emotions to habits. These are kinds of knowledge work processes in which connection with other people happens in an emotional painful way if at all. It would seem obvious to me that we are generally talking about narcissism in connecting to individuals or small groups of people, and that the model for regulating those relationships is moral rather than more directly 'knowledge'. A Narcissist miss treats their family, creates immense pain in the family, or miss treats staff, or whatever. We gauge their behavior on a small scale, but we don't have a large scale of behavioral standards for connection processes. And the moral standards have little direct connections to how the brain really works. It's funny to list symptoms, to make jokes, but what do you do with a real live narcissist? Is a fixed and rigid personality treated like a pariah in families? It's my experience that families just make funny rules about how to cope in everyday life with a member who is not fitting in like others but can function in certain sorts of narrow limits. The family is demonstrating that family social life itself offers rather restricted options in it's boundaries. It used to be said of homosexuals theirs was a narcissistic disorder in which they were searching for their mirror image. thanks, Doyle Saylor
