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Exhibitionism
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How is it that in the privacy of their stroll together he never dared breathe a single little obscenity to her, but now, when he risks being heard by all kinds of people, he’s yelling outrageous things?
Precisely because he has imperceptibly left the zone of intimacy. A word uttered in a small enclosed space has a different meaning from the same word resonating in an amphitheater. No longer is it a word for which he holds full responsibility and which is addressed exclusively to the partner, it
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― Slowness
― Slowness
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Often, her mate is the child of a narcissist, already indoctrinated to regard exploitation and disregard as love. Others lured by the narcissistic aura are those in whom healthy childhood exhibitionism has been repressed. . . . If the parent puts the child to shame for showing off, the need for attention gets repressed into the unconscious. Repression means that the need is not satisfied and continues to press for expression in the adult without her being aware of it. The repressed adult may sel
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― Trapped in the Mirror: Adult Children of Narcissists in Their Struggle for Self
― Trapped in the Mirror: Adult Children of Narcissists in Their Struggle for Self
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