Witnessing the Narcissist: Need to be Remembered, Validated
December 18, 2025
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as posted by the channelThe need to be witnessed is an extension of need to be seen. It is a form of validation and involves both facts and hermeneutic narrative.
Witnessing that confirms and conforms to self-concept and locus of grandiosity is ego syntonic and amounts to secondary source of narcissistic supply.
Narcissist "disappears" when witnesses do or change their memories.
Epistemic injury as narcissistic injury
Narcissist is dissociative, so witnessing serve as external memory and source of reconstructed identity
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