Social Psychology (Kohurt) Flashcards
what is narcissism?
a mental health condition in which people have an unreasonably high sense of their own importance
what are the POLES of narcissism?
- grandiosity
- idealization
- twinship
what is grandiosity?
a sense of specialness and self-importance that might lead you to: boast about real or exaggerated accomplishments.
what goes into grandiosity?
- mirroring
- faulty mirroring
what is mirroring?
an experience where the caregiver recognizes the child’s capabilities and talents and affirms the child’s feelings of strength.
what is idealization (merger)?
want to merge w/ self-object, who do you look up too?
what is your self object?
the developing child plus each of those people who give the child the abilities to maintain self structure and firmness and a sense of cohesion and steadiness (who do you look up too?)
example of idealization?
getting your favorite singers autograph
your self object can be?
anything (ex: alcohol), never goes away = something outside you
what is self cohesion?
relying in yourself for validation (grandiosity) rather than others
what is twinship?
people need to feel a sense of likeness with others
(I need to see myself in you & I need to see you in myself)
what is transmuting internalization?
- functions once associated w/ self object now can do by yourself
- bringing characteristic of self objects into oneself and making them your own
- what works for you?
- your “it” factor
trophy wife example?
“if I have this (trophy wife), what does that say about me?”- idealization
grandiosity comes from _____, where idealization comes from ______?
grandiosity - you
idealization - someone else
