Posted by Dave Kelly on March 30, 2000 at 20:17:54:
In Reply to: Or even another type... posted by Cory on March 30, 2000 at 17:29:38:
: 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
That's very encouraging, Cory. You understood it right off the bat.
Mark Twain was the idealized image that Samuel Clemens had of himself. Betty Glad in Jimmy Carter (pg. 494) using Karen Horney to identify Carter's "expansionistic narcissistic personality" says "Briefly, Horney's theory may be summarized as follows. Some individuals have developed highly idealized images of themselves with which they identify and which they love--"...the person is his idealized self and seems to adore it"
Thanks, Dave