@Kub933 ,
I didn’t mean that I thought you were calling yourself that, but rather that the entire subject is far beyond “vanity” and the regular understandings of ego, pride and vanity.
I realise actualism is proclaimed in the first line Of the website as “It is possible to live in this modern era, freed from out-dated Philosophy and Psychiatry”, but i never saw anything about narcissism being “cured” in the clinical sense on the website. As in, the word is used in it everyday meaning whenever i have read anything on the site.
the clinical reality of the “disorder” is far more instructive than the way it is is lumped in with philosophy and metaphysics et al, on the website.
There is over 100 years of research into how the “normal” aspect of the psyche can manifest in the worst of human behaviour and create the worst of it. Objectification (whether sexual, or otherwise) at the early stages of life creates what Vaknin describes as an “imaginary friend” which ends up being the only self the victim ever develops.
To take it back to applicable usefulness: in what way have we created and maintained a false self from childhood becuase of objectification?