Narcissistic domination

The parent who locks into this position, the complementary moral defense, creates fixed complementarity, and destroys the possibility of intersubjectivity, with the child who is now coercively driven to adopt the moral defense. This fixed complementarity and the dominance of one subjectivity over the other is the essence of the pathological narcissist’s relational modus operandi, and the model for his relationships with significant others.-- Enter Ghosts: The Loss of Intersubjectivity in Clinical Work With Adult Children of Pathological Narcissists[1]