Word: selfing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first installment of My Life with Jacqueline Kennedy appeared in the July Ladies' Home Journal and caused an immediate furor. Based on Jackie's private memos, letters and financial records, it pictures the Queen of Camelot as vain, petty, self-indulgent, ill-tem pered and neglectful of her husband. According to Mrs. Gallagher, Jackie spent $40,000 in one year for clothes but tried to economize by serving White House guests leftover drinks, hoarding gifts of food customarily turned over to charities and selling her used clothes...
...room to their modest house "after we get some loot." Few, however, could understand why she was quite so vindictive. One friend of the author discounts a story that Mrs. Galagher was smarting over a dressing down, and maintains that she adored J.F.K. and resented Jackie's self-indulgence and seeming lack of concern for the President...
Storr defined the paranoid state as "attributing to others feelings or thoughts which belong to the self, through the mechanism of projection." The paranoid state is accompanied by persistent delusion, generally of a persecutory nature. The popularization archetypal examples are true: the paranoid does feel himself in the midst of a plot or enmeshed within a powerful conspiracy. He is a distrustful person, balancing himself upon a tight walk environment...
...paranoid's narcisstic beliefs of self-importance are an infantile trait, according to Storr. He is regressing to a childlike level by applying all his love to himself. This is a compensatory move," for he feels himself incapable of receiving love from outside himself, and can only project hostility and aggression...
...traveling fast on an interior journey. Gradually abandoning rationalism as flat and absurd, he whizzes through Descartes, Locke, Freud and existentialism, all experienced not as abstractions but as personal modes of apprehending himself and the mysterious island around him. Like Speranza, Tournier's novel is an island, unique, self-sufficient, imaginative, well worth exploring, and with a number of minor marvels to reveal...