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Essay / Compare and contrast wit and a beautiful mind
The film revealed that Nash had a God-like narcissistic complex. For example, when talking about his hallucination, Charles, he described himself in these terms: “Despite my privileged upbringing, I am actually quite well-adjusted. I have a chip on both shoulders” (Grazer, 2002). After graduate school, Nash made it clear that he felt he was too good for his job as a professor; for example, on the first day of class, Nash displayed a nearly impossible math equation and told his students that it would take them months to understand an equation of this level of difficulty (Grazer, 2002). The way Nash handled human interaction in the book and film deviated from the normal reactions a person might have based on each particular scenario; innate characteristic of schizophrenia (American Psychiatric Association,