The word "narcissist", as it is used in 2021, barely means anything: pop-psych : "narcissist" :: political rhetoric : "fascist". ... Is it an overconfident p

The word "narcissist", as it is used in 2021, barely means anything: pop-psych : "narcissist" :: political rhetoric : "fascist". ... Is it an overconfident person? Or a person who needs validation? It it a person who doesn't care enough about others' opinions, or one who cares too much? Is it a loud or obnoxious person? But what of the so-called "covert narcissist"? I have heard all of these things. So obviously "narcissist" just means "I am going to use a medicalized word as a weapon". ... Finally, these meanings have little to do with the actual myth of Narcissus: The beautiful boy who loved only his own reflection. Isn't there a different meaning in that story? That we should be careful to love, in other people, more than our own reflection? I see only the most tenuous connection between that idea and the earlier ones.