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Unveiled Artist
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No. We learn it. That's why many of us are appreciative because our experiences and upbringing may have taught us how to be grateful for what we have and who we know. It's part of human growth. If one was born and had no human contact, how would he define love outside of survival and a need to fulfill psychological trauma of isolation?
all types...........isn't narcissism = self preservation? don't we have to love ourselves before we can love anyone, or anything, else?
without human contact physical and psychological maturity ceases. babies have actually died from lack of physical contact.
maternal deprivation
I consider narcissism not a type of love. So this analysis works not for me.
Unveiled Artist
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That's why love isn't innate. It's learned.
This sounds like the beginning of a song.
What's the next line?
I don't know; I only write non-con. You'll have to find someone else to help you
hmmmmm, so you believe that a entity is born without any consciousness and the parents, guardian somehow instills this in them?
if that was true, then why would a offspring need any nurturing of any sort? why would a offspring need anything beyond feeding, cleaning, and the sight and sound of a guardian?
Much of Harlow's scientific career was spent studying maternal bonding, what he described as the "nature of love". These experiments involved rearing newborn "total isolates" and monkeys with surrogate mothers, ranging from toweling-covered cones to a machine that modeled abusive mothers by assaulting the baby monkeys with cold air or spikes. The point of the experiments was to pinpoint the basis of the mother-child relationship, namely whether the infant primarily sought food or affection. Harlow concluded it was the latter.
you don't believe that someone should have a level of love for self?
narcissistic personality disorder is a disorder based on a "disproportionate" love of self.
Not in a narcissistic way.
so the Law to Love excludes self? the Golden Rule doesn't apply to self?
Narcissism is not the same as loving oneself. Narcissism is selfish love that makes one think he is better than others.
everyone falls along the spectrum
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People vary in narcissism; they can have healthier or unhealthier forms; and their narcissistic tendencies may moderate over time. This is true, perhaps, of all psychological constructs.
Narcissism | Psychology Today
that is narcissitic personality disorder.
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Kernberg was the first to point out that there can be a pathological form of narcissism which we now call Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Even though people may meet the criteria for this diagnosis, however, they show the symptoms in differing degrees.
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I still think the word is misleading. I would call it love for self, which of course I believe a person should have.