Cultural Examples
In Friedrich Schiller's Wallenstein, the protagonist's "ruthlessness in dealing with others, his lasting feeling of being singled out, and his blind belief in his own greatness can be interpreted easily as syndromes of the "malignant narcissism" that seems to be characteristic of the infamous dictators of history".
The Journal of Psychoanalytic Psychology published an interpretation of the film American Psycho as an example of malignant narcissism.
Read more about this topic: Malignant Narcissism
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