Tag: 3 Narcissists

3 Tests+3 Baits: How Narcissist Lures You (Clip Skopje Seminar Opening, May 2025)

The speaker outlined a narcissist’s repetitive recruitment process—spotting, auditioning, baiting (with co-idealization to follow)—that locates and selects targets within familiar social spaces. Auditioning involves three tests: whether the person can be idealized, can provide at least two of the four “S”s (sex, services, supply, safety), and is sufficiently vulnerable. Baiting exploits a simulated “inner child” and the target’s own inner child to infantilize, regress, and indoctrinate the victim into a cult-like shared fantasy, enabling control and long-term exploitation. 3 Tests+3 Baits: How Narcissist Lures You (Clip Skopje Seminar Opening, May 2025)

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3 Narcissists: Faker, Iconoclast, Doomsayer

Sam Vaknin outlines a nosology of pro-social or communal narcissists, identifying three types: the faker who ostentatiously conforms and exploits existing systems; the iconoclast who rejects the old order to impose a new one and offers followers hope and direction; and the brutally honest narcissist who weaponizes honesty as sadistic, misanthropic aggression. He describes each type’s motives, strategies, and social effects, noting how fakers signal conformity, iconoclasts create a new in-group narrative, and brutal honestists inflict harm under the guise of candor. Vaknin warns these varieties are increasingly prevalent in postmodern society and calls attention to their damaging consequences. 3 Narcissists: Faker, Iconoclast, Doomsayer

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