The speaker explains that narcissists experience death differently from healthy people: they psychologically deny death and experience an internalized state of “being dead,” so external deaths register as mere factual updates rather than emotionally impactful events. Narcissists lack object constancy and instead maintain internalized representations (internal objects) of others that never truly die, allowing them to cognitively note a death without emotional assimilation. The talk draws on psychoanalytic concepts like introjection and “ego passage” to argue that the narcissist’s mind operates as a dynamic hive of internal objects, preventing genuine integration of loss or transformation. How Narcissist Perceives Your/Their Death