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Tripping in the Dark: Dark Triad of Writing
The dark triad in psychology refers to the (considered negative) traits of Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and narcissism. Skillful writing has a bit of narcissism and a tiny amount of Machiavellianism, not psychopathy. I was reading Barthe’s Death of the Author while considering Nietzsche’s theory on lying when I wrote Death of Strauss. The struggle of an author to release a piece of work…