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[edit] books dealing with the narcissism of small differences

http://books.google.com/books?q=%22narcissism+of+small+differences%22&btnG=Search+Books some 200 of them have limited content concerning the term available - all have information enabling inter-library loan to put them in your hands Kiwi 12:38, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Hello Kiwi. That's a great link, but I think you will find that the many WP:RS on that list (in between a few others) would only serve to endorse the deletion last night. Just entre nous...the source really was a VERY long way off what Freud actually said...to be honest only the first paragraph of the article even came close. The rest is just WP:OR waffle off at a tangent of his own. Apart from which, you KNOW as well as I do that unqualified financial analysts don't meet WP:RS for psych articles, nor should they... --Zeraeph 17:40, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Didn't say he was, Zerph, for he should footnote and support each assertion, as well he could, but for his dislike of fetching the book from the shelf and searching for the page. Of course, he is increasingly taking the time and trouble over the past years to more precisely cite. Indeed, should the full text of all psychiatric and psychology texts be scanned into a searchable database, he would immediately go back in time and add all the detailed citing throughout to demonstrate that what he writes is not works of fiction, but treatises of what OTHER highly recognized authorities in the field have written.

But that aside, to suggest that a theory that Freud advanced so very long ago was a fait accompli is purely preposterous. Psychology is an evolving understanding of the human condition, both the inner dynamics and those between individuals and social groups. To propose that no other qualified professional in the next hundred years is entitled to expand on that original hypothesis and to demonstrate its presence as a unifying principle demonstrates an incomplete understanding of the formal study of psychology. Kiwi 18:12, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Kiwi, there are plenty of WP:RS for Freud on the "Narcissism of Small Differences" without resorting to self published amateurs of dubious repute (who ARE, themselves, a bit in the habit of publicly condemning Wikipedia for citing self published amateurs of dubious repute [1][2] so we must be EXTRA careful not to give them any justification. --Zeraeph 18:24, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] is this part of the phenomenon?

Is this related to the fact that people are more revulsed by "monsters" the closer they resemble human beings; or that the more realistically animated characters in films seem "weirder" than the less animated ones? or is that a different Wikipage? Gzuckier 14:51, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

You know, I think it may be related...we fear most the monster with whom we can most identify...like Dracula? --Zeraeph 15:36, 3 August 2007 (UTC)