Cary Tennis: Chop Down Family Tree
Up in Salon, Cary Tennis gets a letter from a distressed “child” whose parents took up a new hobby. The child must be around 30ish, and the hobby is geneaology. Tennis coins a new term:
relative narcissism, a projection disorder in which the ego, unable to countenance its own narcissism, projects onto ancestors all the idealized qualities it would otherwise take onto itself; it is harder to diagnose than traditional narcissism because its sufferers do not act grandiose and superior.
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