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Speaking of self-esteem, check out Roy Baumeister, Laura Smart and Joseph M. Boden's "Relation of Threatened Egotism to Violence and Aggression: The Dark Side of High Self-Esteem".
Bryan Caplan uses the fact that people rarely have delusions of mediocrity or obscurity to argue for a Szaszian conception of mental illness.
It is a sad fact about this world that most people are mediocre and obscure, so how can they be deluded about that?
Funny, I always thought of delusions of mediocrity as self-fulfilling prophecies.
Both interpretations could be simultaneously true...
The non-mediocre may be.