The Narcissistic Wound

Narcissism is a diagnostic category, a threshold, right? Or if your symptomology reaches a certain level, you qualify it with enough symptoms or behaviors, you reach the level of narcissism. That's not what I'm talking about. But all of us have some narcissistic wounds. Some of us more than others. And having the experience in childhood that the authentic or real self was not tolerated, was not acceptable.