Is Fantasy Good for You? Fantasy vs. Lies vs. Delusion vs. Confabulation
Science and enlightenment were failed experiments. Now we are reverting to Middle Ages: from the reality principle to fantasy.
Fantasy vs. Lies vs. Delusion vs. Confabulation
There are two types of fantasy defense: person-centred and process-centred. This taxonomy is similar to substance-centred vs. process-centred addictions. The person at the center of a person-centred fantasy is akin to an addictive substance at the core of a substance-centred fantasy.
Not all process-centred fantasies are healthy. Narcissists and psychopaths are lazy because of their fantasies: they pursue shortcuts, feel entitled (grandiosity), are possessed by magical thinking. Fake it till you make it.
All fantasies are psychological defenses against an unbearable reality. But what renders the world so intolerable? Its threatening nature.
Undergirding all fantasies is a master delusion: “I am fragile, at risk of losing my mind, falling apart at the seams, an ideal victim of people or circumstances, an unworthy or bad object, doomed to fail.”
What gives rise to such a self-negating and catastrophizing scenario of precarity?
Parental overprotectiveness or, its opposite, neglect. Both types of caregiving misconduct yield all-pervasive mistrust of life and of the very possibility of justice, patterned order, and stable structure.
There are two types of fantasy defense: person-centred and process-centred.
Fantasies are intended to provide safe spaces and outlets for aggressive and self-destructive impulses involved in the civil war between the need to be seen (grandiosity) and the internalized bad object (“I am inadequate, an impostor, and unworthy”). Dysregulation and identity disturbance are the outcomes of this inner strife.
When in touch with reality, these voices create coalitions which lead to adverse outcomes. For example: spectacular, public, and attention-grabbing self-destruction.
Fantasies which revolve around another person - common in intimate or interpersonal relationships - inevitably dissolve into reality and therefore mayhem.
Fantasies which are founded on a narrative or an impersonal process - self-aggrandizing or self-destructive as they may be - never do. They are self-contained and well regulated.
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Professor Vaknin please publish a biography. Your body of work will live on and people will need to know who you are. Thank you.😊
I had the rather satisfying experience of hitting the thumbs up on this video when it was at 999 and watch it turn to 1K. It's the small things in life, what else can I say 🤷♀️
Very good to understand about narcissism, that’s why it is so diffucult to communicate. We live in different worlds without common understandings for each other. Thank you so much for this lecture!
professor Vaknin, thank you.
OK shoshannim
@Anna-nr3sh
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I react like a Pavlov's dog when I hear those ooooouuuukeeeeeii-s 😂 😆 😂 I'm literally becoming all ears in an instant
You are fantastic and this is a fact not a fantasy!
Thank you , Professor Vaknin.
Thank you so very much Sam perfectly timed as I was thinking about this. 💖
You are so weirdly amazing! I am fascinated with your scientific tales
Thank you professor.
Thank you 😊 bless you
Priceless thank you
You describe everything so accurateeeee!!!
Thank you as always
Accurate observation
So - professor Sam, you said narcs 'don't engage in gaslighting'??
What is it called when someone is trying 'guess' what the perpetrator is , thinking or saying or doing behind your back, when you are trying to 'fill in the blanks' so to speak? Is that confabulating as well? Or, is it called something else?
@candieee
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I would think that would be ruminating. If you do it because because you’re constantly scanning and looking for something wrong to happen that keeps you constantly on edge, I would say that would be hypervigilance.
@nuqworld
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Magical thinking? Imagining you know what someone elses motivation and thinking is.
Dr Lachkar hasn’t shared the title “how to speak to a narcissist “ yet.
Okkkk shoshanim 😂 What's today???
Believing that they will come into great wealth
Doctor is there a way I can talk to privetly?
@sonaboo
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Book therapy sessions from the website.
@thearchane3749
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Why, are you attracted to him as well? 😂 There's a queue