If you read a list of narcissistic traits, you will see that self-awareness, understanding others, and desire to know the truth are not there. In other words, a narcissist may or may not be self-aware, understand others, or want to know the truth.
Harry is self-aware but is also self-obsessed, understands people but is also selfish, and accurately perceives science but is also grandiose.
Unrealistically so? Is Harry’s assessment of self less accurate than other people’s self-assessments on average?
accurately perceives science
Once again, not what I was talking about.
The traits I mentioned Harry possessing are opposites of what are considered to be narcissistic traits.
From http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism A lack of psychological awareness (see insight in psychology and psychiatry, egosyntonic) Difficulty with empathy. Magical thinking: Narcissists see themselves as perfect, using distortion and illusion known as magical thinking. They also use projection to dump shame onto others.
What writes my bottom line to a large extent is that my “read” (intuitive assessment) of Harry is that he isn’t a narcissist. (For reasons I won’t go into now, I trust my ability to recognize that). With that as starting point, I picked the minimal set of traits, which to me prove conclusively that Harry isn’t a narcissist (unless to a very small extent).
If you read a list of narcissistic traits, you will see that self-awareness, understanding others, and desire to know the truth are not there. In other words, a narcissist may or may not be self-aware, understand others, or want to know the truth.
Harry is self-aware but is also self-obsessed, understands people but is also selfish, and accurately perceives science but is also grandiose.
Unrealistically so? Is Harry’s assessment of self less accurate than other people’s self-assessments on average?
Once again, not what I was talking about.
The traits I mentioned Harry possessing are opposites of what are considered to be narcissistic traits. From http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism
A lack of psychological awareness (see insight in psychology and psychiatry, egosyntonic)
Difficulty with empathy.
Magical thinking: Narcissists see themselves as perfect, using distortion and illusion known as magical thinking. They also use projection to dump shame onto others.
What writes my bottom line to a large extent is that my “read” (intuitive assessment) of Harry is that he isn’t a narcissist. (For reasons I won’t go into now, I trust my ability to recognize that).
With that as starting point, I picked the minimal set of traits, which to me prove conclusively that Harry isn’t a narcissist (unless to a very small extent).