Narcissistic Entitlement=Learned Helplessness+Grandiosity
Channel: Prof. Sam Vaknin
Date: 2021-06-17

Entitlement is a hallmark of all types of narcissists: they are convinced that they deserve special treatment and privileges as well as narcissistic supply without any commensurate accomplishments or efforts.

But what laymen and experts alike fail to appreciate is that entitlement is a form of learned helplessness.

Abusive parents do not allow the child to develop boundaries, to separate, and to individuate.

Consequently, the child comes to depend on them for both acting in the world and for regulating his internal environment. In other words: the child is rendered perennially helpless.

This artificially induced impotence provokes the child’s aggression. He sublimates this forbidden impulse by becoming demanding, petulant, and implacable (“spoiled brat”), a pattern of misbehavior that carries well into his dysfunctional adulthood.

Routines negate entitlement and provoke compensatory grandiosity and defiant itinerancy.

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