The powers unleashed by the Superego are so enormous, its intentions so fatal, the self-loathing and self-degradation that it brings with it so intense - that the threat is real. Actually, anxiety is more rational than many fears. It is the echo of a battle between one part of the personality, which viciously wishes to destroy the individual through excessive punishment - and the instinct of self-preservation.Īnxiety is not - as some scholars have it - an irrational reaction to internal dynamics involving imaginary threats. It has no discernible external triggers and, therefore, it is not fear. But they are sufficient to provoke intense guilt feelings and to set in motion a chain of self-flagellation and self-punishment.Īmplified by an abnormally strict, sadistic, and punitive Superego - this results in a constant feeling of imminent threat. The individual is only aware of them in passing and vaguely. These thoughts and wishes do not fully surface. This is doubly true if the individual possesses a sadistic, capricious Superego (a result of the wrong kind of parenting). These are all proscribed by the Superego.
#PUNITIVE SUPEREGO FULL#
His mind is full of "dirty" words, curses, the remnants of magical thinking ("If I think or wish something it just might happen"), denigrating and malicious thinking concerned with authority figures (mostly parents or teachers). Originally, the narcissist experiences "forbidden" thoughts and urges (sometimes to the point of an obsession). This regime of repressed and mutated aggression is a characteristic of both narcissism and depression.
Transformed, this aggression is directed at the depressed person rather than at his environment. In other words, there is no proven high correlation between suffering from NPD (or having even a milder form of narcissism) - and enduring bouts of depression.ĭepression is a form of aggression. Is there any connection between these two problems? Answer:Īssuming that these are clinically established facts, there is no necessary connection between them. My husband is a narcissist and is constantly depressed.
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