Egocentrism

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Egocentrism describes the attitude of a person who regards himself as the center of all events and evaluates all events from his own point of view and from his own perspective.

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Egocentrism (or egocentricity ) is a developmental psychological term and goes back mainly to Piaget . Egocentrism is a v. a. childlike cognitive mentality that assumes that one's own subjective view has an objective status. This is not to be equated with a reflected self-love ( egoism ) and only to a limited extent with Freud's narcissism . The egocentric child is cognitively incapable of seeing this worldview because he has no idea of ​​his own self . The child imagines itself as the world, it is the world. The development of a true self-awareness goes hand in hand with socialization and the knowledge of subjectivity .

Egocentrism is most evident in babies who do not even feel their own hands and feet belong to them. Objects do not exist when they are out of view . Self-centered thinking persists throughout childhood. Aspects other than one's own are not understood. Own wishes, fears and longings are projected into the environment on the basis of this, which, according to Piaget, leads to magical attitudes and rituals.

According to Piaget, egocentrism in children manifests itself in three sub-forms: realism (philosophy) , animism and artificialism .

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The attribute egocentric refers to different terms: to an egocentric character ( egocentrism ), a technical term from personality psychology with which egocentrism should not be confused. To distinguish it, it was proposed to choose the term egocentric for developmental egocentrism . In philosophical and sociological literature, the term egocentrism is also used as a broader form of egoism .

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