infantile-narcissism
crux
Discussed in
- DFW on Infinite Jest — To the Best of Our Knowledge, Wisconsin Public Radio (October 20, 1996)
- Infinite Cast Part 107: Don's hospital nightmare (pp. 837–845) — commentary segment (~21 min): the wraith-as-narrator DM, the Entertainment as shell-opener, Gately in the crib
- Infinite Cast Part 118: Gately/Fackelmann, Joelle interrogated, Hal & Coyle (pp. 936–945) — commentary segment (~21 min): the Entertainment as confluence, the joke JOI actually made, giant babies everywhere
- The Great Concavity Ep. 21: Clare Hayes-Brady — The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace, resistance to closure, and Wallace on gender (recorded ~November 2016)