10-10-2012, 07:46 PM
That's an interesting concept, which offers a different, and not negatively connotated functionality.
So in that regard, what would the narcissistic "clothing" protect one from?
That being said, there are other views:
"Karen Horney saw narcissism quite differently from Freud, Kohut and other mainstream psychoanalytic theorists in that she did not posit a primary narcissism but saw the narcissistic personality as the product of a certain kind of early environment acting on a certain kind of temperament. For her, narcissistic needs and tendencies are not inherent in human nature."
So in that regard, what would the narcissistic "clothing" protect one from?
That being said, there are other views:
"Karen Horney saw narcissism quite differently from Freud, Kohut and other mainstream psychoanalytic theorists in that she did not posit a primary narcissism but saw the narcissistic personality as the product of a certain kind of early environment acting on a certain kind of temperament. For her, narcissistic needs and tendencies are not inherent in human nature."