Scholars such as Kohut, Kernberg, and Freud assumed that narcissism was related to parental relationships in childhood. So at that time because the needs are not met at all or not at all they thought narcissism emerged as a personality disintegration. Although they thought about it then, we now know that there is no single factor that leads people to be narcissistic as a result of several recent studies on the subject.

Some experts; when narcissism says families raise confident children They think it’s because he praises children unnecessarily. Researchers working in the field of social media They see the reason for this situation in the fact that social media provides an environment for the person to express themselves. In this article, instead of focusing on these reasons, we will focus on one reason that perhaps paves the way for all these reasons, which is the unhealthy individualization effort.

Our journey from social cultures to individual cultures where the individual comes first…

According to researchers, everything with the industrial revolution started. Machine power began to replace the manpower required for agriculture. Villagers who could not find jobs in village life moved to the cities and worked as factory workers. Extended families lost their importance, however, individual emerged. This culture, in which the individual is central and the balance between individual and society is not disturbed, has become Western culture.

This individualization, which began in Europe, was similarly reflected in America. Looking at how the culture of individuation reached us, experts mention that the breakup of the USSR played a major role in this regard. When the USSR collapsed and the Cold War ended Socialism suffered a global defeat, but Western civilization was legitimized and began to emerge as the most ideal civilization to be achieved. With the contribution of developments in science and technology, countries; they became increasingly closer economically, ecologically, politically and culturally. One of the countries that received a share of this was Turkey.

If we are not individually individualized in a healthy way, we are likely to become selfish and narcissistic.

So is individualization a bad thing? Not according to research, if it’s in healthy ways. In unhealthy ways it makes the individual selfish in pursuit of his freedom, narcissism, and upsets the balance in the relationships of the individual and society.

If we look at how a healthy individual becomes individualized, we can see that this individual self-control mechanisms has developed. This person strives for self-actualization; In this way, it struggles with internal and external social pressures and addictions that can damage its self-confidence. If the individual lacks self-control, self-awareness and social awareness, it will be an unhealthy individuation and this person will harm himself and society with his unlimited freedom.

You are probably a narcissistic person if you have these symptoms:

If we look at the symptoms of narcissism, narcissistic people delusions of grandeur we see that. In other words, they believe they are special, they think they are more beautiful and smarter than everyone else, and even they think they should be treated special for this reason. It happens that they use the people around them for their own benefit.

When someone comes in who is prettier and smarter than her. delusions of jealousy quantity. In the same way, they think they are envied by others. You can recognize them by their loud laughter to attract attention.

Remark: This article is written to increase people’s awareness about themselves and society. Only a mental health professional can diagnose someone with narcissistic personality disorder.

• Sources: DergiPark, Psychology Archives