Object Relations Manipulative attitudes, which in conjunction with feelings of omnipotence and omniscience, create a mystique of immunity. Partial reality test. Refraining from intimacy. Absence of emotional investment. Active misogyny with sadistic and anti-social elements.
Narcissistic dependence serves as substitute for emotional involvement.
The Narcissist prefers fear, adulation, admiration and Narcissistic accumulation to love. The object is kept emotionally distant through deterrence and is constantly tested by the Narcissist who reveals his negative sides to the object. The aim of negative, off putting behaviours is to check whether the Narcissist's uniqueness will override and offset them in the mind of the object. The object experiences emotional absence, repulsion, deterrence, and insecurity. The erratic and demanding relationship with the Narcissist is experienced as a burden.