Egocentric is a masculine adjective referring to self-centeredness, related to ego, and describes someone who considers himself the center of all interest. Some synonyms for egocentric are: selfish, narcissistic and cocky.
Originating in Latin, egocentric is the junction of ego (me and centrum (the middle of everything, the center) and reveals one's tendency to refer everything to himself, making the self the center of the universe.
Being egocentric consists in an exaggerated exaltation of one's personality, even considering it as the center of attention and general activities. In the egocentric person imagination and thought are found so permanently occupied with the self and its interests that it is incapable of putting yourself in another individual's place and of contemplating, from the point of view of another self, the matrix or aspect that things have and events.
Egocentrics are willing to make others bear their own difficulties without the help because they don't care about the thoughts, feelings and problems of the people around them. They are also capable of pretending, in front of themselves and in front of others, for not daring to face reality, for fear of hurting its demands.
Egocentrism and Psychology
In the context of child psychology, egocentrism is the normal psychic attitude and characteristic of second childhood. It consists of a normal attitude from 3 to 6 years old, characterized by the absence of distinction between personal reality and objective reality.
Psychologist Jean Piaget stated that all children in this phase are egocentric, as they do not have mechanisms able to make them understand that other people have different beliefs, needs and reasoning. from them.
