From Omnipotence to Injury: Reliving Narcissistic Wounds
Understanding the Roots of Narcissistic Entrapment
The journey from infancy to adulthood is defined by a singular, painful achievement: separation....
When Desire Becomes a Mirror
Narcissism can be understood as a dynamic interplay between self-love and instinctual life, rather than a fixed “trait” that someone...
The glass prison and narcissism intersect around visibility, validation, and self-surveillance. Both feed on this environment, self-worth, narcissistic integrity, via approval and assurance by...
Narcissism always has a dual orientation, primarily positive or negative, highly dialectic, whereby it can't exist in a pure state; it must be associated...
The narcissistic child has omnipotent, controlling and tyrannical fantasies of controlling his mother (object), which are part of normal development but need to be...
The infant of Mahler's differentiation subphase of separation-individuation, approx 4-9 months, is observably developed out of total bodily dependence, within a vaguely experienced dual...