This behavior of selling an image is to have people reflect, admire, applaud or even detest, in order to have the narcissist feel his existence. While the reputation of the narcissist is of a person completely taken and in love with himself, in actuality, it is mostly the opposite. The narcissist's ego is weak and lacks boundaries. He has sadistic and punishing elements to his behavior. Narcissism is frequently discussed as a type of depression.
Many narcissists gravitate to acting, politics, and writing.
Demonstrates arrogance in the extreme Origin of the Behavior Narcissism generally results from extremes in child rearing, curiously from either pampering or neglectful rearing. Excessive praise of children can create feelings of superiority, of greatness being an entitlement, and seeing people as a source of praise. Similar feelings can arise from the opposite rearing where there is parental indifference and neglect. This rearing deficiency gives rise to a compensatory need for greatness, affirmation and adulation to make up for obvious deficits in child rearing. While the overly praised child may have delusions of grandeur, the neglected child may develop this outward appearance of being great, to fill the actual internal void.