
206 - Narcissism
You Are Not So Smart
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Don Draper's NPD
Don Draper is a classic example of NPD. He's stuck in a loop of seduce score run away Because he's terrified of anyone seeing the real person wearing his Don Draper mask both professionally and privately throughout the show. On another level Don Draper is literally not a real person without going into too many spoilers He's just an advertisement for another person who is wearing this Don Draper mask and like all ads there's no way a person could actually be that cool. I love mad men especially because of its exploration of narcissism And these two examples illustrate again when he is asked what's behind the mask by two different journalists in one case when he is feeling very vulnerable because of the context
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