Narcissist's False Self: Sublime or Sublimation?

Possession theory: by genes or by demons (equally contentious)

The child is harried via Immitigable gauntlet.

False Self is a spectral Portuguese man o' war, a hive, a colony. It is relational (Lacan, Sullivan's Interpersonal Theory).

False Self less about flexing and more about fending off, a fulcrum. It is giddy when it scuttles the abuse sometimes by identifying with the aggressor.

Sublimation in physics and alchemy

Sublimation in psychoanalysis

Sublimation is always narcissistic because it focuses on the individual. It internalizes society (socialization) and individualizes it, rendering it a private case.

Sublimation and narcissistic libido

False self is callow (infantile) and callous (antisocial, lugubrious (prolonged grief) sublimation (phase transition from true to self + psychoanalytic, its contents prosocial, normative).

False Self is redolent of the fantasy of prosocial normality (but not normalcy). It is pseudo-sublimatory.

It confuses the reality principle (ego functions) with prosocial dimensions (efficaciously acting in and on reality is conflated with acting normatively; self-efficacy mistaken for moral righteousness). At the same time, it seeks to inveigle and manipulate.

False Self usurps id and ego functions but not superego. It is often pungent, truculent, atrabilious, cantankerous – or contemptuously taciturn.

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