A damnation of truth seeking and alienation. Hated by all, we wander, our hands empty, our minds ad astra. We are no longer here. We never have been. The narcissist employs numerous defence mechanisms, including rationalization and intellectualization.
Ratiocination is a reflexive activity of the narcissist.
He tends to generalize on the basis of very flimsy evidence and jumps to exceedingly far fetched conclusions based on a chance behaviour. It leads, at times, to paranoid ideation or to being possessed to some degree by ideas of reference.