Narcissist Imagines Himself Through YOUR Gaze (Attributional Delusions)
Channel: Prof. Sam Vaknin
Date: 2024-03-10

The narcissist idealizes himself through delusional assumptions about the contents of other people’s gaze (“co-idealization”). 

The cerebral becomes his/her own love object: “They regard me as a lovable genius, so this makes me worthy of self-love”.

The somatic is rendered his/her own sex object: “They find me irresistibly attractive, so I am inexorably sexually drawn to myself” (autoerotism).

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