Beyond Self-Esteem: The True Nature of Narcissism

Narcissism isn’t about esteem

• Low self esteem
• Exaggerated self esteem.

Some narcissists have low self esteem, and some other narcissists have exaggerated self esteem.

There is a little connection between fluctuating esteem and narcissistic offensive mechanisms and Aggression.

Narcissism is characterized by a conscious aware deliberate feeling of superiority, entitlement, disregard for rules, discard of moral codes, and arrogance. And it’s not a defensive mechanism at all, and absolutely it has nothing to do with self esteem at all.

Both converts and Obverts Resist authority and refuse to submit to rules and laws.

the following offensive mechanisms :

Rebellion behavior, defiance, less agreeableness, lawlessness, arrogance, and ruin seeking, crazy making, fact twisting, future faking, history rewriting, delusionally inventing things up, manipulation, attention seeking, poor me, self absorbed behaviors, faking a good reputation, do gooders, false prophets (pseudoscience men, pedophile religious men), breaking rules they preach but they lecture about, and eventually discarding everything and recycling it.