Egotism

Roy Keely:

“Egotism is pathological self obsession, a reaction to anxiety about whether one really does count. It is a form of acute self-consciousness and can be prevented and healed only by the experience of being adequately loved. It is indeed, a desperate response to frustration of the need we all have to count for something and be held to be irreplaceable, without price.“

— Dallas Willard, pg15, The Divine Conspiracy