Tag: Dark Triad

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 into…