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Episode 28: Malignant Narcissism: A Reservoir of Hatred and Violence

Lives of the Unconscious. A Podcast on Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

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The State of the Mafia

One's own feelings of inferiority are split off and transferred unto others. Others are made to feel weak, or at least made out to be weak so that one does not have to feel weak oneself. The soul of a child who grows up in dramatic or neglectful circumstances is like a state where the enemy reigns. There are no rules except the rule of the strongest. Once a person has surrendered, there is no escape, any betrayal, is persecuted and tortured to death as a traitor. This is an image of what happens in the mental life of malignant narcissism.

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