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Esther Perel on The Tolstoys

Significant Others

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Is There a Narcissism in the Modern Couple?

i think of a narcisisso someone who is to some degree incapable of ampathy, or certainly not prone to it. And with someone like tolstoy, and i think for many creative geniuses, especially writers, ampathy is sort of a necessary ingredient for that success. There are some narcississ that we are looking at in this season. They sort of can only justify their own behaviour. They can't feel anyone else's pain, you know, that kind of thing. Tolstoy does seem a en he's the great humanist writer. That's the fascinating question. How is it that the same person that sometimes cannot show on empety and consideration

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