![]() ![]() Gradually, he is estranged from himself, possessed by some kind of demon, a puppet on invisible, mental strings. He knows that he is in the wrong and feels ill at ease on the rare moments that he does feel. The narcissist hurts people around him, or breaks the law, or violates accepted morality. He says things, acts and behaves in ways, which, he knows, endanger him and put him in line for punishment. He does things and he knows not why or wherefrom. Anxiety ensues and the narcissist finds himself constantly ready for the next blow. This inner battle is so fierce that the True Self experiences it as a diffuse, though imminent and eminently ominous, threat. Yet, it is fully the master of the psychodynamic processes which rage within the narcissist's psyche. It is incapable of feeling, or experiencing. The False Self is nothing but a concoction, a figment of the narcissist's disorder, a reflection in the narcissist's hall of mirrors. The latter - the fossilised ashes of the original, immature, personality - is the one that does the experiencing. This is a result of the functional dichotomy - fostered by the narcissist himself - between his False Self and his True Self. How does a narcissist experience his own life? Answer:Īs a prolonged, incomprehensible, unpredictable, frequently terrifying and deeply saddening nightmare. Watch the video on The Narcissist's Life, a Prolonged Nightmare. ![]()
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