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egomania
[ noun ] an intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs <noun.motive>
Symptoms of creeping egomania appear, along with Barbra's growing tendency to take a song between her teeth and shake it to death (Cole Porter's "You're the Top" comes in for extra mangling).