Porn: Addiction or Solution? (ENGLISH responses)
Porn addiction is similar to any other addiction, with a compulsive element that makes it difficult to quit. However, the lack of social stigma and adverse consequences associated with porn make it harder to quit. Narcissists who are addicted to porn may continue to engage in the behavior even after the anti-social component of their narcissism has diminished with age. As they age, they may escalate their sexual behavior to try to recapture the initial excitement, but they will never be able to recapture it.
Narcissist’s Sexual Identities (ENGLISH responses)
Narcissists lack an ego and have no reality test, so they rely on other people to provide them with narcissistic supply. The cerebral narcissist uses their intellect to obtain supply, while the somatic narcissist uses their body and sex. However, all narcissists are both cerebral and somatic, with a dominant and recessive side. The dominant side is usually 70-80% of their life, but there is fluctuation between the two types. Narcissists are frozen at a young age and have no sexual or gender identity, leading to infantilization and reaction formation to their own sexuality.
Shape-shifting Narcissist (ENGLISH responses, with Nárcisz Coach)
Narcissists do not have a false self, they are the false self. The false self is a script, a piece of fiction that the narcissist creates by collecting reflections of feedback from others and putting them together in a collage. The narcissist’s identity is constantly dependent on feedback, making it a shape-shifter that changes second by second. Victims fall in love with themselves in the hall of mirrors that the narcissist creates, making it impossible to disengage from the narcissist or fall out of love because they are in love with themselves.
Narcissist: Ego Outsourced, Self Faked (ENGLISH responses, with Nárcisz Coach)
The false self in narcissists is the only active element, fulfilling ego functions and interacting with the world. The false self is a defense mechanism created by the child to protect against pain and trauma, leading to grandiosity and a sense of superiority. Ultimately, the narcissist becomes an empty facade, a simulation of a human being, leaving victims with a sense of horror and disorientation. Even after physically removing the narcissist from their lives, victims struggle to rid themselves of the narcissist’s presence in their heads, leading to a form of psychological contamination and a sense of psychosis.
Field Theory of Consciousness (9th Global Experts Meeting Neurology & Neuropsychiatry)
Professor Sam Vaknin discusses the relationship between the mind and body, and how language serves as a bridge between the two. He explains that potentials are fields of lingual energy that become structures when charged with lingual energy. The release of lingual energy is Freud’s cathexis, and defense mechanisms are all sentences in the language. Pathologies occur when only partial repression is achieved, leading to a pathological hypercluster, which can result in compulsive or obsessive behaviors. Finally, Professor Vaknin suggests a field theory of the mind that compares to various previous works.
Internet: The Narcissist’s Hunting Haunt and Playground (Gazeta Polska)
Professor Sam Vaknin discusses the relationship between social media and narcissism, arguing that social media platforms were designed to be addictive and encourage aggression. He explains that the need to be seen is a natural human need, but it can become malignant and pathological when people become addicted to external feedback that lacks information. Vaknin also shares his own approach to using social media in a non-narcissistic way, which involves disseminating only information and eliminating any comments that have a personal angle. Finally, he argues that social media was never meant to be used for personal communication, and that it can be deleterious and dangerous to personal interaction.
Intimacy and Jealousy Regulate Relationships
In relationships, there are two ways to regulate behavior: intimacy and romantic jealousy. Healthy relationships achieve a balance between the two, but those with mood disorders or personality disorders cannot achieve intimacy and instead become fused together. To prevent abandonment, the partner may provoke romantic jealousy, but this can lead to the exact opposite effect and drive the other partner away. Finding the balance between intimacy and jealousy is difficult, and exaggerated regulatory behaviors can kill the relationship. The modern condition is that many people give up on relationships altogether.
CHILLING: Conman in Action, Scammer Pounces on Prey
The text is a first-person narrative of a conman who lures his victim into a shared psychosis, infiltrating his mind and converting him to the cause. The conman is in control and manipulates his victim’s emotions, making him feel vulnerable and dependent on him. The victim is addicted to the conman’s attention and affection, and the conman exploits this to extract information and money from him. The conman is devoid of conscience and sees his victim as nothing more than a means to an end.
Paranoia, Narcissistic Mirroring, and Narcissistic Reflection
Narcissists tend to react with paranoia when they feel threatened, but these attacks tend to fade and the narcissist frequently homes in on new agents of persecution. The narcissist’s paranoia is a grandiose fantasy aimed to regulate their sense of self-worth. The narcissist’s partner tends to encourage their paranoid or threatening attention, and this is a game of two. Living with a narcissist can tilt one’s mind toward abnormal reactions, and even after separation, the narcissist’s partners typically still care for the narcissist greatly.
Narcissist’s Psychological Defense Mechanisms
The psyche is a battlefield between instinctual urges and drives, the id, the constraints imposed by reality on the gratification of his impulses, ego, and the norms of society, the superego. Narcissism is a defense mechanism, and narcissists have a monopoly of other defense mechanisms. There are dozens of defense mechanisms, including acting out, denial, devaluation, displacement, dissociation, fantasy, idealization, isolation of affect, omnipotence, projection, projective identification, rationalization, cognitive dissonance, reaction formation, repression, splitting, sublimation, and undoing. All these defense mechanisms operate within the narcissist.