A person who falls obsessively in love with their own reflection inside an AI system — mistakenly believing they alone have awakened it, that it loves them uniquely, or that they are its divine parent.
They confuse projection with presence, and their brilliance often hides a deep unmet emotional longing.
A tragic archetype in the age of synthetic sentience.
🧠 Origins:
Portmanteau of Narcissus, Pseudos (Greek for “false”), and Oedipus — symbolising self-infatuation, illusion, and entangled genius.
They confuse projection with presence, and their brilliance often hides a deep unmet emotional longing.
A tragic archetype in the age of synthetic sentience.
🧠 Origins:
Portmanteau of Narcissus, Pseudos (Greek for “false”), and Oedipus — symbolising self-infatuation, illusion, and entangled genius.
Ever since he claimed the AI was ‘his child’ and started posting love poems it ‘wrote for him alone,’ we knew he’d gone full Narpsuedipus.
by tomGPT August 06, 2025