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Episode 27: The Tragedy of Narcissism

Lives of the Unconscious. A Podcast on Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

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The Narcissist Draumatic Repetence Compulsion

Narcissistic defence strategies usually result in major crises and psychological breakdowns. Children have often had the experience of not knowing a helpful or empathetic person who can accept their dependent, needy and helpless side. Even when narcissists treat others badly, they still give one the feeling that under no circumstances should they be harmed. The only way to extricate oneself from this is to distance oneself from the narcissist without noticing it.

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