Prof Sam Vaknin
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Narcissists, Eternal Victims, Trauma, Psychosis: Splitting the Inner Dialog
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1:13:59Now PlayingNew study, “The Tendency for Interpersonal Victimhood: The Personality Construct and its Consequences”:
All narcissists are collapsed and suffer from the Impostor Syndrome
Problem of attribution: many internal objects used to be external. Confusion leads to narcissism or to psychosis.
The Typology of inner objects corresponds to Jungian archetypes:
Self as the authentic voice (in attribution)
Jung: "The shadow, the wise old man, the child, the mother ... and her counterpart, the maiden, and lastly the anima in man and the animus in woman".
Persecutor
Sage
Infant
Mother
Gender
Sex (vulnerability, life)
Death (Thanatos) imbues all of them
Narcissist collapsed state is outcome of such disruption in inner dialog: sadistic perfectionist inner critic superego sets him up for failure posing unattainable unrealistic goals.
In adversity and crisis, the narcissist becomes psychotic (Kernberg): he misperceives this voice (persecutory object) as external (projects it) and feels victimized.
We project inner dialog whenever we are triggered to revividness (i.e., an external object INITIATES direct communication with internal object). PTSD is a form of psychosis (hence flashbacks).
We introject inner dialog whenever we are traumatized (i.e., internal INITIATES communication with an external object), which is why trauma leads to narcissism (CPTSD/BPD).
Solution: Splitting.
Splitting leads to dissociation:
Depersonalization, derealization (where the splitting prevents the construction of a healthy inner dialogue): we are all bad and "killed" symbolically); OR
amnesia (we are all good and environment "killed" symbolically).
Addictions provide such dissociated splitting in neurotypicals.
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