Posted by Cory on March 30, 2000 at 17:29:38:
In Reply to: Inventing Mark Twain posted by Dave Kelly on March 30, 2000 at 11:22:55:
A Four.
It's interesting you wrote this post because before I even read it, I was reading up on Mark Twain last night. I thought he sounded very much like me in many ways, hiding his depressed, tortured self with a witty, brilliant ego persona. My persona is evident if you deal with me and speak with me, and even on my personal web page, but usually I don't use it much in real life because I'm sensitive about it. Anyways, I say Four as a compensatory narcissistic because it sounds similar to a Four's "elitism" and pride of being abnormal and above the rest of society. Unlike the self-worshipping Three who genuinely believes he is great, this is more of an ego defense against their underlying self-hatred. Compensatory narcissists aren't true narcissists. Narcissists have superiority complexes, compensatories have inferiority complexes masked by a pseudo-superiority complex. I guess both types of narcissism can appear in Three, although the compensatory may constellate itself in Four. And the E-Types I'm referring to are referring to are Riso's.
-Cory