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egomania
Egomania is also known as an obsessive preoccupation with one's self〔dictionary.com〕 and applies to someone who follows their own ungoverned impulses and is possessed by delusions of personal greatness and feels a lack of appreciation.〔H.C.R. Norriss (Indulgent parents; Alienist Says they Make their Children Egomaniacs ), July 24, 1913, ''The New York Times''〕 Someone suffering from this extreme egocentric focus is an egomaniac. The condition is psychologically abnormal.〔
The term ''egomania'' is often used by laypersons in a pejorative fashion to describe an individual who is intolerably self-centred. The clinical condition that most resembles the popular conception of egomania is narcissistic personality disorder.〔Gretchen Reevy et al eds., ''Encyclopedia of Emotions: Volume I'' (2010) p. 217 〕
==Nordau and modernism==
Egomania was brought into polemical prominence at the close of the 19th century by Max Nordau, the first critic who perceived the centrality of the concept of egoism for an understanding of Modernism...() his wholesale attacks on the ideology of "egomania"'.〔Jean-Michel Rabaté, ''James Joyce and the Politics of Egoism'' (2001) p. 27〕 Nordau distinguished egoism - as 'a lack of amiability....The egoist is quite able to look after himself in life' - from the 'ego-maniac...who does not see things as they are, does not understand the world, and cannot take up a right attitude towards it'.〔Max Simon Nordau, ''Degeneration'' (1895) p. 243〕
Nordau's attack was aimed at the Avant-garde of the fin de siècle. 'His aim is to describe the "geniuses" as criminals and madmen..."''culte de moi''"'.〔Rabaté, p. 29〕
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