Why Narcissist Can't "See" You (False Self as Selfobject) (Conference Presentation)
October 31, 2024
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as posted by the channelVideo presentation to the 2nd International Congress on Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, London, June 2025.
Narcissist’s selfobject is the False Self, an internal object. Only the False Self forms selfobject relations with external objects.
Selfobject: An object which is used in the service of the self or objects which are experienced as part of the self and provide a function for the self.
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n. in self psychology, selfobject is one’s experience of another person (object) as part of, rather than as separate and independent from, one’s self, particularly when the object’s actions affirm one’s narcissistic well-being.
The need for self-objects can be an aspect of psychopathology, as when an individual’s self-esteem requires constant shoring up from others. [first described by Austrian-born U.S. psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut (1913–1981)]
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