Prof Sam Vaknin
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Narcissist: How I Experience Other People
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8:20Now PlayingI experience people as dim apparitions, inert characters in a boring novel or a tedious, overlong film – lifeless, except when they provide me with narcissistic or sadistic supply at which point they spring to life (like so many nutcrackers or gingerbread men) and become radiant, kinetic, idealized beings.
People pass through my perimeter, devoid of all significance, their limbs askew, their mouths gaping. They invariably exit stage left, never to be brought to mind.
Stuttering, then freezing frames in obsolete films or in burning celluloid photographs.
They cease to exist when they cease to give and I expect to be treated as transactionally.
Nostalgia for the period, for memories of abundant, high quality supply – never for people. I don’t miss anyone ever: they are mere sepia memories trapped in the amber of my mind.
The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
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