Another perspective on the same subject comes from the psychoanalysis of people who have narcissistic personality disorder. These individuals lack a sense of self. In moments of candor and insight they say that they do not have a self, or at most, that their self is an unformed and worthless life form. Narcissists create "false selves" t…
Another perspective on the same subject comes from the psychoanalysis of people who have narcissistic personality disorder. These individuals lack a sense of self. In moments of candor and insight they say that they do not have a self, or at most, that their self is an unformed and worthless life form. Narcissists create "false selves" that they perform in social settings and in front of their own mirrors and cameras. These performances are usually tailored to create positive or negative feelings in other people, so are examples of conscious playacting. However, the narcissists do not have the inner self that an "actor" can revert to when the performance is over. They say that they need their audiences to believe that the false self is the narcissist's true self, in order to believe it themselves. If the chosen audience sees through the persona, the narcissists experience this as an annihilation of the only "self" they have, and they typically project onto the audience an intention to destroy the narcissist. Narcissists react to this situation by aggressively attacking and devaluing the audience members who failed/refused to "validate" the false self as a real entity.
The parallels with the statements by trans activists that "gender critical" people are committing genocide are unmistakable. So many of the trans activists are obviously narcissistic, like Mulvaney, it is possible that the trans genocide narrative is a case of typical narcissistic projection following onlookers' rejections of cross-sexed performances as revelations of real selves.
Wow. I have read only personality typology derived from Jung, and have found it very valuable - very. It corresponds to reality, and there is both empirical and brain-scan evidence of its reality. It seems related to CBT, which seems intuitively credible to me, and which I found helpful at one time.
What you say of narcissism is astonishing. Do you have a favorite or suggested reading? I am guessing that this explanation is the result of repeated clinical observations based upon interviews and conduct.
I recently have been studying pathological narcissism both clinically and through reading. I have read a lot of both the popular self-help literature and the professional literature on the subject. I often can't recall where all the ideas originally were published that I have incorporated into my work. I am going to make an effort to find the sources of the description I previously posted about narcissistic identity problems. I find myself thinking more about this dynamic recently, perhaps in reaction to the pressure from the environment to affirm that the emperor is wearing a handsome set of clothes, when he actually isn't.
Another perspective on the same subject comes from the psychoanalysis of people who have narcissistic personality disorder. These individuals lack a sense of self. In moments of candor and insight they say that they do not have a self, or at most, that their self is an unformed and worthless life form. Narcissists create "false selves" that they perform in social settings and in front of their own mirrors and cameras. These performances are usually tailored to create positive or negative feelings in other people, so are examples of conscious playacting. However, the narcissists do not have the inner self that an "actor" can revert to when the performance is over. They say that they need their audiences to believe that the false self is the narcissist's true self, in order to believe it themselves. If the chosen audience sees through the persona, the narcissists experience this as an annihilation of the only "self" they have, and they typically project onto the audience an intention to destroy the narcissist. Narcissists react to this situation by aggressively attacking and devaluing the audience members who failed/refused to "validate" the false self as a real entity.
The parallels with the statements by trans activists that "gender critical" people are committing genocide are unmistakable. So many of the trans activists are obviously narcissistic, like Mulvaney, it is possible that the trans genocide narrative is a case of typical narcissistic projection following onlookers' rejections of cross-sexed performances as revelations of real selves.
Wow. I have read only personality typology derived from Jung, and have found it very valuable - very. It corresponds to reality, and there is both empirical and brain-scan evidence of its reality. It seems related to CBT, which seems intuitively credible to me, and which I found helpful at one time.
What you say of narcissism is astonishing. Do you have a favorite or suggested reading? I am guessing that this explanation is the result of repeated clinical observations based upon interviews and conduct.
I recently have been studying pathological narcissism both clinically and through reading. I have read a lot of both the popular self-help literature and the professional literature on the subject. I often can't recall where all the ideas originally were published that I have incorporated into my work. I am going to make an effort to find the sources of the description I previously posted about narcissistic identity problems. I find myself thinking more about this dynamic recently, perhaps in reaction to the pressure from the environment to affirm that the emperor is wearing a handsome set of clothes, when he actually isn't.
A begrimed and befouled cod-bag adorns the emperor's wrinkled old garment.