ABSTRACT
Individuals with typical narcissistic personality organisation often are seductive and strikingly articulate and use language in an autocentric manner for regulating self-esteem while exhibiting cognitive and emotional limitations. A person with narcissistic personality organisation uses splitting of self-and object images as a main mental defence and covertly is aware of the existence of his or her "hungry self". In depositing, the adult person is the active partner who plants his specific images into the developing self-representation of the child. Ira Brenner described persons with multiple personality organisation who utilise dissociation all the time. In Victor's situation there was no need to externalise a dissociated self since it was firmly encapsulated and was subjected to amnesia. Exploring the nature of Victor's transference manifestations would quickly disturb the patient since his main concern was to protect his grandiosity and isolate and encapsulate his dissociated self.
