egocentricity

Positive and negative power

Reflections naive about selfishness and narcissism

If selfishness is a need to grow up, become an adult, requires knowing the master. When selfishness is excessive it can become a pain. Age, freeing us from our selfish passions, makes us ready, more able to rediscover the things you loved, writes Madeleine Ferron

We say that it is self-centeredness : the tendency of one who is the center of everything ...

Before the age of seven, the inability or difficulty to coordinate all states and transformations, defines what is called, a word that can make clear, egocentrism . This term is justified, because the point of view of the subject remains highly prevalent, because the child regularly reports its position to the real present .

But cognitive egocentrism reflects the lack of mobility of thought, unable to coordinate methodically different points of view or not successive enlargement of the self as ego prefix might suggest ( Universalis ) .

According to this definition, egocentric excess adult can be likened to a infantilism .

two Faces

As for elitism, selfishness offers two kinds of faces. It can be kind to humanity. And may instead, be disastrous for her.

Self-centeredness is "positive" when he consciously seeks the good of others . When it is accompanied by generosity and universality.

It becomes a negative force when, for example, creates selfishness and indifference to the poor. When he takes up for himself all the attention * . When he hoards all looks and speaking time, and robbing the real needy.

* This is what part of the elite known as " celebrity " .

This is the second case we will discuss now .

2001

centeredness and TV