What is "narcissistic"

Usage examples of "narcissistic".

The invert glorifies his narcissist, places him on a pedestal, endures any and all narcissistic devaluation with calm equanimity, impervious to the overt slights of the narcissist.

But, in the CONTEXT of the Narcissistic Personality Disorder what I describe in FAQ 10 is one of a group of recurrent dysphorias identified as early as 1960.

BUT his personality is antithetical to the personality of the narcissistic parent.

Highly disturbed narcissistic individuals may find extraordinary success in certain professions, such as big business, the arts, politics, the entertainment industry, athletics and televangelism field.

The bulk of narcissistic behaviours can be traced to this panicky reaction to the remote potential for loss of control.

Ego, of inserting it back into the larger currents of Life and Love, the Eco camps ended up inadvertently, paradoxicallychampioning modes of knowing and feeling that were supremely egocentric and flagrantly narcissistic.

The narcissist instantly idealises or devalues, depending on his appraisal of the potential one has as a Narcissistic Supply Source.

This is because he so successfully internalised the narcissistic Primary Object to the exclusion of all else.

These are narcissists who acquire their Narcissistic Supply by making use of their bodies, of sex, of physical of physiological achievements, traits, health, exercise, or relationships.

Into this reflective vacuum, this sucking black hole, the narcissist attracts the sources of his Narcissistic Supply.

Sex for the narcissist is an instrument designed to increase the number of Sources of Narcissistic Supply.

Instead of climbing up and off the pyramid in transpersonal releaseand actually having done with this anthropocentric madnesslet us instead climb right back down it, right back into egocentric, biocentric, narcissistic, self-crowning glory, there to heal the planet.

In other words, the more one can go within, or the more one can introspect and reflect on one's self, then the more detached from that self one can become, the more one can rise above that self's limited perspective, and so the less narcissistic or less egocentric one becomes (or the more decentered one becomes).

In starting out with the express intention of decentering the Ego, of inserting it back into the larger currents of Life and Love, the Eco camps ended up inadvertently, paradoxicallychampioning modes of knowing and feeling that were supremely egocentric and flagrantly narcissistic.

Virginal paperbacks, their margins a tabula rasa for narcissistic scribbles, were cheap enough to inspire minimal guilt when I wrote in them and bland enough to accept my defacements without complaint.