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He finds himself, in the middle of the road of life, in the ugly place that is his soul. The young woman is only a promise. There is another woman "old, with heavy make-up, poorly dyed hair, loud, obnoxious, drunk". This is his mental disorder. It can scarcely sustain the deception. Its make-up is heavy, its hair dyed poorly, its mood a result of intoxication. It could well be the False Self or the Superego, but I rather think it is the whole sick personality. She notices him, she berates him with derogatory remarks, she screams at him. The subject realises that his disorder is not friendly, that it seeks to humiliate him, it is out to degrade and destroy him. It gets violent, it hurls food at him, it buries him under a dish of popcorn (a cinema theatre metaphor?). The war is out in the open. The fake coalition, which glued the shaky structures of the fragile personality together, exists no longer. Notice that the subject does not recall what insults and pejorative remarks were directed at him. He deletes all the expletives because they really do not matter. The enemy is vile and ignoble and will make use and excuse of any weakness, mistake and doubt to crack the defence set up by the subject's budding healthier mental structures (the young woman). The end justifies all means and it is the subject's end that is sought. There is no self-hate more insidious and pernicious than the narcissist's.
(From the book "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" by Sam Vaknin - Click on this link to purchase the print book, or 16 e-books, or 2 DVDs with 12 hours of video lectures on narcissists, psychopaths, and abuse in relationships: http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/thebook.html)
He is forced finally to confront his own mother.To say loudly what he couldn't say when he was a child.
And then the water-true feelings and emotions-can flow again.
But he is still afraid of love and intimacy because even if justice has been done he still has scars on his soul and grease on his hands.
The robot like man in the bar is his father-enabling for his mother and absent for his son-a shadow of a man.
His morality -policeman-reminds him to not seek revenge, only restitution.
Closure.
magdalenaferu 7 months ago
Narcissists live in a dream world and treat people they meet as "representing something" instead of people in their own right deserving of respect and consideration. Narcissists have strong projections and prejudices onto people based on strict categories and expectations, and they are judged harshly according to whatever shallow value system he holds. Utilitarian. Knowing that people represent certain parts of one's psyche can be healthy, in the case of the narc, it's murderous to the other
KartoonKarma 11 months ago