Lecturer applies Baudrillard’s spectacle theory to pathological narcissism, arguing that in postmodern hyper-simulation identities are performative and constructed from the sign-value of possessions and curated images. Narcissism acts as a defensive, preemptive objectification in which the false self replaces the authentic self, broadcasting superiority and seducing others into a fabricated reality. Unlike psychopathy’s direct destruction of external reality, narcissism subverts it through mimicry, seduction, and the reproduction of simulations—phenomena amplified by social media and consumer culture. Narcissist’s Seductive Hyperreality: Feminine Sign-value of False Self (Baudrillard)