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Posted in Mind Matters
April 2, 2015
Malignant narcissists
are the personification of human evil. Well-known psychologist and author,
Erich Fromm, coined the phrase “malignant narcissism” back in 1964 and
characterized it as the “quintessence of evil.” Psychoanalyst Otto Kermberg
claimed that the antisocial personality was essentially narcissistic and lacked
morality, indicating that malignant narcissism includes a sadistic element,
which serves to create a sadistic psychopath. In 1984, Kermberg proposed
malignant narcissism as a psychiatric diagnosis. Writer and psychiatrist M.
Scott Peck (People of the Lie
)
identified malignant narcissism as “the primary root of most human evil.” Peck
further characterized it as “militant ignorance.”
According to Wikipedia
and Richard N. Kocsis in Criminal Profiling, “malignant narcissism can
be described as ‘an extreme form of antisocial personality disorder that is
manifest in a person who is pathologically grandiose, lacking in conscience and
behavioral regulation, and with characteristic demonstrations of joyful cruelty
and sadism.’
“As a syndrome, it may
include aspects of schizoid and narcissistic personality disorder, as well as
paranoia — recent ‘contributions have confirmed the importance of malignant
narcissism and the defense of projection’ in the latter syndrome, as well as
‘the patient’s vulnerability to malignant narcissistic regression.’
Malignant narcissism
can be comorbid with other psychological disorders such as borderline
personality disorder, sociopathy, even psychopathy. Malignant
narcissists, however, cannot be helped by therapy. According to Jacques Lacan
in Écrits: a Selection, “the patient attempts to triumph over the
analyst by destroying the analysis and himself or herself.” The patient cannot
stand the idea that anyone other than his own lofty self has the power to free
him from his condition which, all too frequently, the narcissist sees as being
preferable—even superior—to being mundanely normal.
In What Makes a
Narcissist Tick by Kathy Krajco, it is stated that while a personality
disorder is a psychiatric diagnosis, in the law the narcissist’s behavior is
viewed as “premeditated and volitional.” She later opines “…it is quite likely
that psychopathy (Antisocial Personality Disorder) and malignant narcissism are
one and the same. [They] go through life doing their thing by laying waste to
lives in other ways like malignant narcissists do, as “love thieves,”
parasites, gold diggers, climbers, slanderers, verbal abusers, child abusers,
wife beaters, pied pipers (i.e., religious and political messiahs), and the
like…leaving poverty, destroyed careers, ruined potential, lost nest eggs,
psychological injury and even suicide in their wake.” I can personally attest
to poverty, ruined potential, psychological injury, and even near-suicide as
the result of relationships with malignant narcissists. These people are just
plain dangerous. They are evil.
Peck says that evil has
to do with killing, it is that which is against life and liveliness. “When I
say that evil has to do with killing, I do not mean to restrict myself to
corporeal murder. Evil is also that which kills spirit. There are various
essential attributes of life–particularly human life–such as sentience,
mobility, awareness, growth, autonomy, will. It is possible to kill or attempt
to kill one of these attributes without actually destroying the body.”
Emotional abuse, manipulating and controlling another person, denying them
autonomy and freedom: these acts, common to narcissists of all stripes, are
acts of evil.
Evil, however
(according to Peck) is not so much the sin itself but the refusal to
acknowledge the sin, to admit you were wrong and seek to make amends. So while
any person may do something that hurts another, like participating in the
bullying of a co-worker, for example, the truly evil are those who refuse to
acknowledge their wrong-doing. This is the difference between having a
conscience, knowing remorse, and the narcissistic lack of conscience, even
going so far as to blame the victim for his feeling hurt: “…he was asking for
it, wearing those pink socks with yellow pants, dressing like a geek—we just
gave him what he had coming…”
Malignant narcissists
take it one step further: instead of waiting for an opportunity to ride
someone, they make their own opportunities. They stalk, cyber-stalk, harass,
bully, and even plot against their targets for extended periods of time. There
is nothing too low for them to stoop to, no behavior too extreme for them as
they pursue their goal of power and dominion over those around them. A
malignant narcissist will do anything she thinks she can get away with
in order to get what she wants. There is nothing they will not do to get their
way, to create ways to get gratitude and admiration from others, to punish
those who thwart them. From intentionally digging at someone’s emotional tender
spots to stealing their children, to keeping a terminally ill man home until he
collapses on the way to the bathroom and breaks a bone, then concealing both
his illness and death from an adoring daughter (who didn’t so much adore the
narcissistic mother), these people have no boundaries, no sense of shame, no
limits to what they are willing to do to get what they want.
Malignant narcissists:
they are the evil that walks among us.
Recommended Books:
People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil
The Survivor’s Quest: Recovery After Encountering Evil
Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
Puzzling People: The Labyrinth of the Psychopath
Defeated Demons: Freedom from Consciousness Parasites in Psychopathic
Society
In
support of Narcissistic Abuse awareness and recovery.
June
1st is World Narcissistic Abuse Awareness
Day (WNAAD).
Recommended
websites for research and recovery:
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