Psychologists have often
remote-diagnosed them as "malignant, pathological narcissists".
Narcissists are driven by the need to uphold and maintain a false self
- a concocted, grandiose, and demanding psychological construct typical
of the narcissistic personality disorder. The false self is projected
to the world in order to garner "narcissistic supply" - adulation,
admiration, or even notoriety and infamy. Any kind of attention is
usually deemed by narcissists to be preferable to obscurity.
The false self is suffused with fantasies of perfection, grandeur,
brilliance, infallibility, immunity, significance, omnipotence,
omnipresence, and omniscience. To be a narcissist is to be convinced of
a great, inevitable personal destiny.
The narcissist is preoccupied with ideal love, the construction of
brilliant, revolutionary scientific theories, the composition or
authoring or painting of the greatest work of art, the founding of a
new school of thought, the attainment of fabulous wealth, the reshaping
of a nation or a conglomerate, and so on. The narcissist never sets
realistic goals to himself. He is forever preoccupied with fantasies of
uniqueness, record breaking, or breathtaking achievements.
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