The speaker explained Sander’s concept of the “shared fantasy”—a mutual, addictive narrative created by narcissists and their partners that becomes a competing reality and relates to historical notions like mass psychogenic illness. The talk detailed how narcissists recruit and bind targets through stages—spotting/auditioning, exposure of a childlike self, resonance, idealization and love-bombing (the “hall of mirrors” and “dual mothership”)—using “cold empathy” to map vulnerabilities. This cycle predictably reverses into devaluation, discard, and hoovering as the narcissist reenacts early separation–individuation trauma, driven by an impersonal psychological “machine.” Baited, Ejected: YOU in Narcissist’s Shared Fantasy (CLIP, University of Applied Sciences, Poland)