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64: 745: 40:) is the idea that the more a relationship or community shares commonalities, the more likely the people in it are to engage in interpersonal feuds and mutual ridicule because of hypersensitivity to minor differences perceived in each other. The term was coined by 171:
cited the phenomenon when talking about ethno-national conflicts. "In numerous cases of apparently ethno-nationalist conflict, the deepest hatreds are manifested between people who—to most outward appearances—exhibit very few significant distinctions."
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has suggested that Freud's narcissism of small differences provides a framework to understand that in a loving relationship, there can be a need to find, and even exaggerate, differences in order to preserve a feeling of separateness and self.
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described this phenomenon when writing about how two groups entered into a long and vicious war after they disagreed on which was the best end to break an egg.
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has been seen as predicated on the narcissism of small differences to achieve a superficial sense of one's own uniqueness, an
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as the decisive element in issues that involve narcissistic image. American psychiatrist
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of personal isolation, which is effectively a narcissism of minor differences.
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On Hate in Love Relationships: The Narcissism of Minor Differences Revisited
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sense of otherness which is only a mask for an underlying uniformity and
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Pathological narcissism stymies Fianna Fáil support for Fine Gael
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It has been pointed out that Jonathan Swift in his 1726 novel
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The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience
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Anton Blok, 'The Narcissism of Minor Differences' in
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from the original on 2021-12-21 – via YouTube.
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Index

psychoanalysis
‹See Tfd›
German
Sigmund Freud
anthropologist
Ernest Crawley
taboo

Civilization and Its Discontents
Civilization and Its Discontents
aggression
Lacanians
the Imaginary
envy
Glen O. Gabbard
Gulliver's Travels
postmodernity
consumer culture
ersatz
sameness
Monty Python
Life of Brian
Emo Philips
Joan Didion
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Michael Laski
Communist Party USA (Marxist–Leninist)
Christopher Hitchens
Collective narcissism
Intragroup conflict

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