Narcissism, Grandiosity, Omnipotence — links, Depth analysis (part 6)…

Now, we’ll look at some proofs, and attempt to unpack what else might be going on!  So, we’ve been doing an assessment.  Basically, it’s been a really long assessment, and aided by my pals over at No Quarter, and the Confluence.  I’ve been reading them since about January as this whole election thing unfolded.  And, like many, had no idea who Obama was and is?  So, quietly, I think we have all been watching and writing, and a clearer picture is emerging.  What I like best about it, is that I can see Americans in action because this election is so important to us.  It’s the biggest election of our lives in way?  Okay.

So, what a therapist does is something called a “mental status exam” — the first few sessions?  You can pretty well tell what the immediate things are?  It takes longer to make a diagnosis.  Time, and observation.  So, here is a little book, and this is a PhD in the web — we can reference this — and we’ll make a proof?  By looking at things that have actually happened!  You can get to Sam Vaknin’s website here.

We were talking about the myth of Narcissus, over the last few days.  Funny, look who is on that book cover!  Remember how we were talking about the gaze and the mirror?  There you have it.

There are four components Mr. Vaknin has written about, and if you click the link above you can read the brief article, it’s very succinct.  We will be using these as proofs?  Of the behavior,

Omnipotence

“…The narcissist believes in his omnipotence. “Believe” in this context is a weak word. He knows. It is a cellular certainty, almost biological, it flows in his blood and permeates every niche of his being. The narcissist “knows” that he can do anything he chooses to do and excel in it. What the narcissist does, what he excels at, what he achieves, depends only on his volition. To his mind, there is no other determinant…”

Here is a video interview, and the text from “The Bourbon Room” — he has “NO DOUBTS” He just knows!  At the Bourbon Room, they unpack it for us.

Obama “Never” Has Doubts About Foreign Policy Experience

“…CBS News correspondent Lara Logan interviewed Obama in Kabul, Afghanistan, today and it aired on CBS’ Face the Nation. Logan made news, first in asking Obama if he ever had any doubts about his foreign policy experience. Obama, as this post’s headline says, gave a one word answer that may inspire as many as it scares: “Never”…”

This statement was one of the first red flags.  I think I watched this over at NQ?  Remember how we were talking about the Depressive position?  Well, that allows a person to “have doubts” about their descisions.  They’d have to check out their “opinion” with others.  To see if it could fly?  This type of OMNIPOTENCE is very difficult.  They would not be able to “take advice” because they are RIGHT, always.  Because they JUST KNOW.  AND THEY ARE NEVER WRONG.

Omniscience

“…The narcissist often pretends to know everything, in every field of human knowledge and endeavour. He lies and prevaricates to avoid the exposure of his ignorance. He resorts to numerous subterfuges to support his God-like omniscience.

Where his knowledge fails him – he feigns authority, fakes superiority, quotes from non-existent sources, embeds threads of truth in a canvass of falsehoods. He transforms himself into an artist of intellectual prestidigitation. As he gets older, this invidious quality may recede, or, rather, metamorphose. He may now claim more confined expertise.

He may no longer be ashamed to admit his ignorance and his need to learn things outside the fields of his real or self-proclaimed expertise. But this “improvement” is merely optical. Within his “territory”, the narcissist is still as fiercely defensive and possessive as ever.

Many narcissists are avowed autodidacts, unwilling to subject their knowledge and insights to peer scrutiny, or, for that matter, to any scrutiny. The narcissist keeps re-inventing himself, adding new fields of knowledge as he goes. This creeping intellectual annexation is a round about way of reverting to his erstwhile image as the erudite “Renaissance man”…

Can you see the potential red flags?  He has not had enough time as a Senator to understand the Military.  He can “bluff” and “pretend” that he knows these things, because he IS NEVER WRONG.  To admit being wrong would cause the EGG of “defences” to implode?  In other words, if he is wrong, or perceived as wrong this would trigger the RAGE?  Being RIGHT means that he has a SELF. (This is the egg shell part — that thin surface that needs the “GAZE” and “APPROVAL” of others.  Think about what you saw in the video above, especially the last part.

Omnipresence

“…Even the narcissist cannot pretend to actually be everywhere at once in the PHYSICAL sense. Instead, he feels that he is the centre and the axis of his “universe”, that all things and happenstances revolve around him and that cosmic disintegration would ensue if he were to disappear or to lose interest in someone or in something.

He is convinced, for instance, that he is the main, if not the only, topic of discussion in his absence. He is often surprised and offended to learn that he was not even mentioned. When invited to a meeting with many participants, he assumes the position of the sage, the guru, or the teacher/guide whose words carry a special weight. His creations (books, articles, works of art) are extensions of his presence and, in this restricted sense, he does seem to exist everywhere. In other words, he “stamps” his environment. He “leaves his mark” upon it. He “stigmatises” it…”

Yesterday we looked at the BIRD, and what had become of the LOGO.  It is now like a shield, it is one the airplane, and imagine how the logo has been everywhere and everything to all people.  People have taken his logo and done custom designs with it?  This would please this Personality Type no end, because all of these little “logos” are under his WINGS? — all are encompassed within the GRANDIOSITY, and so all become what are called “PART OBJECTS.” — SELF OBJECTS who APPROVE (the GAZE) — here is the YES WE CAN, part.  Only WE, are seen as part of the “I” — there is no differentiation?  That is the part about “THE ONE.”

Narcissist the Omnivore (Perfectionism and Completeness)

“…There is another “omni” component in grandiosity. The narcissist is an omnivore. He devours and digests experiences and people, sights and smells, bodies and words, books and films, sounds and achievements, his work and his leisure, his pleasure and his possessions. The narcissist is incapable of ENJOYING anything because he is in constant pursuit of perfection and completeness.

Classic narcissists interact with the world as predators do with their prey. They want to own it all, be everywhere, experience everything. They cannot delay gratification. They do not take “no” for an answer. And they settle for nothing less than the ideal, the sublime, the perfect, the all-inclusive, the all-encompassing, the engulfing, the all-pervasive, the most beautiful, the cleverest, the richest, and the most brilliant.

The narcissist is shattered when he discovers that a collection he possesses is incomplete, that his colleague’s wife is more glamorous, that his son is better than he is in math, that his neighbour has a new, flashy car, that his roommate got promoted, that the “love of his life” signed a recording contract. It is not plain old jealousy, not even pathological envy (though it is definitely a part of the psychological make-up of the narcissist). It is the discovery that the narcissist is NOT perfect, or ideal, or complete that does him in…”

This part above is showing you how a SENSATE type moves through life.  Remember how we were talking about what a THINKING SENSATE was going to look like?  This is it above.  So, all the publicity, magazine covers, posters in his name, media hype, hypnotized followers and so forth all FEED into the GRANDIOSTY covering what is actually an EMPTY FALSE SELF.

The empty false self is where we will go next — stay tuned…