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Thursday, September 15, 2016

The American Narcissist, PART 1


Please see the article about Identifying an Evil and Wicked Heart after reading this post. 
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PART 1

Ahhh...Narcissist, the vain male of Grecian stories who ignored Echo and loved himself so much that he stared at himself in a river and eventually fell in and drowned.


Self-love...the Bible advocates for it, Psychologists encourage a mature and balanced level of it, but how does it really operate in the American culture?

Over the years, I have encountered both types of Narcissists: grandiose and vulnerable...the website lonerwolf.com explains them as engulfing and ignoring narcissists:

  1. Engulfing Narcissists — these are parents who see their children as extensions of themselves. In other words, engulfing narcissistic parents become obsessively involved in your life to an extreme extent. They don’t respect your boundaries or acknowledge you as a separate person. 
  2. Ignoring Narcissists — these are parents who have very little interest in their children. Ignoring narcissists clearly see the boundary between themselves and their children. As a result, they neglect to take care of their children or show an active interest in their lives. 
But no matter how you classify them, there is one who is too stupid to know that they are not that great (grandiose or engulfing) while the other one is so crushed and confused by those who influenced them the most (vulnerable or ignoring) that they bounce back and forth between thinking they are the greatest to thinking that they are nothing...and so when push comes to shove, the vulnerable (or ignoring) narcissist reacts in an explosion of "No!  I'm great!  Why don't you see I'm great?!?"

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