Prof Sam Vaknin
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Narcissist Never Intimate: Intimacy Signaling, Auto-intimacy, Hyporeflexivity
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16:09Now PlayingThe narcissist signals profound, intense intimacy early on. But this is a simulation. It is actually auto-intimacy.
Healthy people perceive the Self as an internal object. The narcissist sometimes externalizes it and then is capable of safe intimacy with it. But this can be done only via the mediation of an internal object that represents an external one.
Hyporeflexivity vs. hyperreflexivity.
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