2024-01-14 04:35:42
The strange thing regarding reading is, among many other things, that most of the time, if we dedicate ourselves to reading good books, we end up involved, pathologically, with beings full of problems. By this I mean that literature is not made with healthy characters, who have good intentions and who do nothing but breathe love into those around them; In general, the most interesting characters are those characterized by conforming to what has been called the dark triad, an expression coined in 2002 by psychologists Delroy Paulhus and Kevin Williams, and which defines people who present three dominant aspects. : narcissism, Machiavellianism and a measurable level of psychopathy. Sometimes, these characters can show a fourth characteristic, transforming the dark triad into a tetrad: sadism, that is, the pleasure produced by the suffering of others. There are those who maintain that all those who present the traits of the triad are also sadists, because narcissism, Machiavellianism and psychopathy express an inclination towards sadism. No matter whether the dark elements are three or four, the result is that these characters make someone’s life unbearable. In fact, they can make the reader’s life hell, causing them to end up more worried regarding their imaginary tribulations than they are. for what happens to his own flesh and blood neighbor.
I don’t want to say that only interesting novels are full of sadists, but without a generous dose of sadism in some character, the engine of the novel shuts down, or begins to fail and smoke. This is how on certain occasions, when we write, we find ourselves in the middle of the road with the hood up, trying to understand what is wrong. Generally everything is solved by bringing a sadist into the dance; The inclusion works like an oil change: the engine turns once more without the slightest noise and the car slides once more on the asphalt smooth as a ski slope. Those people from whom we should stay away in our lives are welcome in novels, and in fact, if no one with those personality traits appears, we miss them, the novel becomes a cold soup: it can be consumed, in fact the We consume it every day, but it doesn’t taste the same as a novel in which a good psychopath moves.
American psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman studied the dark triad and maintains that these characteristics form a continuum and that, to varying degrees, they are present in everyone. All the more reason not to make them disappear from what we write, given that their carriers live among us, or rather, the carriers are ourselves. Working with them is disastrous; falling in love with them is terrible. As lovers they are usually manipulative and controlling, and in the worst case scenario they leave a broken heart and an empty wallet. If they are political, they can cause enormous damage. Having them as followers on social networks can cause insomnia and headaches.
As readers we experience an understandable dose of schadenfreude, the joy caused by the bad luck of others. The characters usually come across arrogant, vain people who behave like victims, who tend to manipulate the truth according to their own interests or simply lie, who suffer from grandeur mania, lack of remorse and empathy.
Reading a novel where the main character does better than us is unhealthy, or worse, wasted time. Psychopaths, in that sense, brighten our lives. Thinking regarding it, writing is a type of psychopathy. All this referring to psychopaths in books. If any reader thinks that he is one of them, for the good of everyone, but especially for yourselves, ask for help.
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