Self-obsession and self-loathing both replicate human-centered solipsism

Evidence

Self-involvement, however it manifests—my doppelganger’s megalomania, my various neuroses, your fill-in-the-blank—is a story in which the self takes up too much space, just as the story of Judeo-Christian Western civilization puts the human (read: white, male, powerful human) at the center of the story of life on this planet, with all of it created for our species. None of it is true. Whether we are loving ourselves too much or loathing ourselves too much—or, more likely, doing both—we’re still at the center of every story. We’re still blotting out the sun. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 1070

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the critique of anthrocentrism / human-centered cosmology seen in ecology and deep-time critique literatures; also she names the structural parallel between individual ego and civilizational narcissism. — connects to: Perpetual self-pity becomes an addictive identity that resists all help — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1807