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When Narcissist is Also Codependent: Inverted Narcissist Compilation (Odd Couple Series)

The meeting discussed the concept of inverted narcissism — a covert, codependent subtype of narcissistic personality that derives narcissistic supply vicariously through an overt grandiose partner, characterized by self-effacement, extreme envy, masochistic tendencies, and a willingness to merge with the partner. Developmental roots, diagnostic criteria, differences from related constructs like echoism and borderline/codependent presentations, and relationship dynamics between inverted and overt narcissists were reviewed through expert commentary and personal correspondences. The speaker emphasized the clinical implications, potential stability of such symbiotic relationships, and the challenges in diagnosis and treatment due to variability and overlap with other disorders. When Narcissist is Also Codependent: Inverted Narcissist Compilation (Odd Couple Series)

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09.01.2026

Are YOU the Narcissist’s Fantasy?

Sam Vaknin explains the narcissist’s shared fantasy as a paracosm centered on a false self (a godlike father figure) and an idealized intimate partner (mother role), created to defend against childhood trauma via splitting and imaginary friends. He links this fantasy-making to creativity and giftedness, notes its religious and cult-like features, and describes how narcissists refuse to grow up, defend their fantasy fiercely, and often shift between somatic and cerebral strategies to extract narcissistic supply. He emphasizes that partners play a role in co-creating the shared fantasy but should feel proud to leave toxic relationships, as ending them is an act of self-preservation and healing. Are YOU the Narcissist’s Fantasy?

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06.01.2026

How Narcissist Perceives Your/Their Death

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

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30.12.2025

Narcissist, Psychopath: My Way or Highway, Eff You, In Your Face Factor

The speaker distinguishes independence (healthy ego and boundary maintenance with cooperative engagement) from defiance (exclusionary, antagonistic withdrawal), and maps a spectrum of reactant defiance from ostentatious eccentricity through nonconformity and consummacious rejection of authority to active rebelliousness and crime. 2) Narcissists and psychopaths use defiance—driven by traits like dissociality and antagonism—as a pride-infused, anxiolytic strategy to signal superiority and maintain fragile self-concepts, often frustrating others and treating people as disposable investments. 3) These defensive, disinhibitory strategies are ultimately self-defeating: reality breaches their defenses, leading to collapse, social isolation, substance use, emotional dysregulation, and sometimes suicide, leaving no sustainable legacy. Narcissist, Psychopath: My Way or Highway, Eff You, In Your Face Factor

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21.12.2025

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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11.12.2025

How Narcissist is Mortified (Empathy Aphantasia)

The video explored the immutable nature of pathological narcissism, emphasizing that while behaviors and attendant disorders can be treated, the core narcissistic self remains unchangeable. It introduced the concepts of mortification and modification, linking them to aphantasia and the misinformation effect, which disrupt the narcissist’s memory and self-perception, leading to catastrophic internal collapse. Additionally, the discussion highlighted the narcissist’s extreme suggestibility, reliance on external validation, and the complex interplay between false memories, grandiosity, and identity defense mechanisms. How Narcissist is Mortified (Empathy Aphantasia)

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10.11.2025

Narcissist? Trust Your Gut Feeling: 4 Rules to Avoid Bad Relationships (Intuition Explained)

In this video, the Speaker emphasized four essential rules for recognizing genuine relationships and warned against deception, particularly in dealings with narcissists and psychopaths, highlighting the importance of trusting and verifying intuition. They explored the philosophical and psychological foundations of intuition, distinguishing three types—identic, emergent, and ideal intuition—and their roles in personal growth, decision-making, and recognizing underlying truths beyond rational analysis. The discussion also focused on the limitations of rationality, the significance of empathy as a form of intuition, and the challenges posed by narcissistic personalities that lack genuine selfhood and authenticity. Narcissist? Trust Your Gut Feeling: 4 Rules to Avoid Bad Relationships (Intuition Explained)

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09.11.2025

Smear Campaign: Turn Narcissist’s Flying Monkeys Against Him/Her

The speaker introduced the concept of “flying monkeys” as individuals manipulated by narcissists to carry out vindictive agendas such as smear campaigns against victims. They recommended strategies to turn these flying monkeys into double agents by feigning compliance or fear, feeding them disinformation mixed with truth, spying on the narcissist, and collecting evidence for future legal action. The overall aim is to subvert the narcissist’s control, expose their conspiracy, and protect oneself from reputation damage. Smear Campaign: Turn Narcissist’s Flying Monkeys Against Him/Her

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07.11.2025

Narcissist’s Impostor Syndrome and Hypervigilance

The speaker discussed the narcissist’s tendency to misinterpret compliments as insults due to their underlying imposter syndrome, which causes chronic self-doubt and hypervigilance. The conversation distinguished between imposter syndrome, characterized by internalized feelings of fraudulence in narcissists, and imposter phenomenon, where competent individuals feel undeserving despite their achievements. The speaker emphasized that narcissists maintain a fragile, fabricated self-image masked by grandiosity, which ultimately conceals a profound inner void and lack of authentic identity. Narcissist’s Impostor Syndrome and Hypervigilance

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31.10.2025

Why Narcissist Couldn’t Care Less About YOU: Cancel Reflex, Romantic Distancing

In this video, the speaker explored the psychology of narcissists, describing their behavior as driven by a compulsive need for narcissistic supply, indifference, and contempt toward others, often manifesting in a “cancel reflex” that devalues and dismisses people as interchangeable objects. The discussion highlighted how narcissists lack emotional empathy, exhibit virulent envy, and engage in antagonistic relationships that often lead to emotional distancing, especially in intimate partnerships, where abandonment and infidelity may occur. Ultimately, the speaker emphasized that narcissists’ destructive patterns result in retribution and isolation, underscoring their immature mental state and the inevitable consequences of their behavior. Why Narcissist Couldn’t Care Less About YOU: Cancel Reflex, Romantic Distancing

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28.10.2025

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