Q&A Fantasy of Gifted Narcissist + Why We Love, Hate, Envy Celebrities, Prodigies and Gurus
Channel: Prof. Sam Vaknin
Date: 2020-05-18

Your questions about the narcissist's shared fantasy and mortification, sex, and intimacy answered.

As far as their fans are concerned, celebrities fulfil two emotional functions: they provide a mythical narrative (a story that the fan can follow and identify with) and they function as blank screens onto which the fans project their dreams, hopes, fears, plans, values, and desires (wish fulfilment). The slightest deviation from these prescribed roles provokes enormous rage and makes us want to punish (humiliate) the "deviant" celebrities.

When the human foibles, vulnerabilities, and frailties of a celebrity are revealed, the fan feels humiliated, "cheated", hopeless, and "empty". To reassert his self-worth, the fan must establish his or her moral superiority over the erring and "sinful" celebrity. The fan must "teach the celebrity a lesson" and show the celebrity "who's boss". It is a primitive defence mechanism – narcissistic grandiosity. It puts the fan on equal footing with the exposed and "naked" celebrity.

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