self-preoccupation

This behavior, according to FreeDictionary.com, can be defined in several ways: (1) Excessive love or admiration of oneself; (2) A psychological condition characterized by self-preoccupation, lack of empathy, and unconscious deficits in self-esteem; (3) Erotic pleasure derived from contemplation or admiration of one's own body or self, especially as a fixation on or a regression to an infantile stage of development.

Andy Ostroy: Explaining Weiner Andy Ostroy 2011

This behavior, according to FreeDictionary.com, can be defined in several ways: (1) Excessive love or admiration of oneself; (2) A psychological condition characterized by self-preoccupation, lack of empathy, and unconscious deficits in self-esteem; (3) Erotic pleasure derived from contemplation or admiration of one's own body or self, especially as a fixation on or a regression to an infantile stage of development.

Andy Ostroy: Explaining Weiner Andy Ostroy 2011

As we connect deeply with our surroundings, self-preoccupation ebbs, we feel part of something bigger than ourselves.

Joseph Bobrow: Veterans Come Alive in the Great Outdoors Joseph Bobrow 2012

As we connect deeply with our surroundings, self-preoccupation ebbs, we feel part of something bigger than ourselves.

Joseph Bobrow: Veterans Come Alive in the Great Outdoors Joseph Bobrow 2012

As we connect deeply with our surroundings, self-preoccupation ebbs, we feel part of something bigger than ourselves.

Joseph Bobrow: Veterans Come Alive in the Great Outdoors Joseph Bobrow 2012

Compassion is always, at its most authentic, about a shift from the cramped world of self-preoccupation into a more expansive place of fellowship, of true kinship.

Tattoos on the Heart Gregory Boyle 2010

This “trance” brings with it a high degree of self-consciousness even self-preoccupation and interferes with making connections with others and developing a sense of belonging.

The Chemistry of Calm M.D. Henry Emmons 2010

Of course, on the part of non-Jews, there is a reluctance to say what they think about Jewish concerns and what Tyler refers to as their "self-preoccupation".

The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson Edward Docx 2010

How indeed can we Americans sleep at night, when at some level, we must all know that we had the world at our command, and that bit by bit we divested that treasure for widgets, entertainment, oversized bank accounts, and the right to eternal self-preoccupation?

Alison Rose Levy: Reflections On Sleep, And The Earthquake In Haiti 2010

You simply can't get around the narrow self-interest and self-preoccupation implicit in that.

Romney Campaign: Remark About Sons Was Taken Out Of Context 2009