Why Narcissists Believe Their Own Lies

This goes beyond lying, falsehood, or trying to get away with doing bad things.

It comes from their sub-clinical multiple personalities.

Narcissists grew up dissociating.

Dissociation is why they find it so easy being inauthentic, and why being authentic is impossible for them.

Over time, excessive dissociation leads to ease of compartmentalization.

Compartmentalization simply means what is true in one situation or one sub-personality is not true with another sub-personality.

For example, someone can be gracious and generous at work, but mean and selfish with family. This contradiction can be explained by the extremeness of their compartmentalization. They are literally different people in different settings.

Excessive compartmentalization then further leads to fragmentation. This means the sub-personalities within them become autonomous and divorced from each other, largely becoming unaware of each other’s activities, perhaps even each other’s existence.

So a narcissist has multiple agents, unlike a normal person, who has only one agent. They have fragmented wills.

When you catch Agent A doing the passive aggressive thing, the narcissist switches agents, and Agent B…