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A repeated or recurrent psychological defense against a narcissistic wound. Such a narcissistic defense is intended to sustain and preserve the narcissist's grandiose and fantastic self-perception (False Self) as perfect, omnipotent, omniscient, and entitled to special treatment and recognition, regardless of his actual accomplishments (or lack thereof). | A repeated or recurrent psychological defense against a narcissistic wound. Such a narcissistic defense is intended to sustain and preserve the narcissist's grandiose and fantastic self-perception (False Self) as perfect, omnipotent, omniscient, and entitled to special treatment and recognition, regardless of his actual accomplishments (or lack thereof). | ||
Narcissists invariably react with narcissistic rage to narcissistic injury. | Narcissists invariably react with narcissistic rage to narcissistic injury.<ref>[http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Narcissistic_Injury_Narcissistic_Wound_and_Narcissistic_Scar.html Narcissistic Wound]</ref> | ||
==Narcissistic Injury== | ==Narcissistic Injury== | ||
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The narcissist actively solicits Narcissistic Supply - adulation, compliments, admiration, subservience, attention, being feared - from others in order to sustain his fragile and dysfunctional [[Negative Ego]]. Thus, he constantly courts possible rejection, criticism, disagreement, and even mockery. | The narcissist actively solicits Narcissistic Supply - adulation, compliments, admiration, subservience, attention, being feared - from others in order to sustain his fragile and dysfunctional [[Negative Ego]]. Thus, he constantly courts possible rejection, criticism, disagreement, and even mockery. | ||
The narcissist is, therefore, dependent on other people. He is aware of the risks associated with such all-pervasive and essential dependence. He resents his weakness and dreads possible disruptions in the flow of his drug: Narcissistic Supply. He is caught between the rock of his habit and the hard place of his frustration. No wonder he is prone to raging, lashing and acting out, and to pathological, all-consuming envy (all expressions of pent-up aggression). | The narcissist is, therefore, dependent on other people. He is aware of the risks associated with such all-pervasive and essential dependence. He resents his weakness and dreads possible disruptions in the flow of his drug: Narcissistic Supply. He is caught between the rock of his habit and the hard place of his frustration. No wonder he is prone to raging, lashing and acting out, and to pathological, all-consuming envy (all expressions of pent-up aggression).<ref>[http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Narcissistic_Injury_Narcissistic_Wound_and_Narcissistic_Scar.html Narcissistic Wound]</ref> | ||