ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses that a person governed by inner currents of narcissism always tries to conceal it. Narcissism never stands nakedly in the open. This is another difference between selfishness and self-centredness. People are quite often openly, unashamedly selfish, but self-centredness is always hidden. Narcissism always has to be flushed out. Paradoxically, when it is flushed out, its structure is changed in the act. If one accepts that growth in self-knowledge is always the product of psychic action, then without such initiatory action a person will stay stuck. The negativity in narcissism is partly due to the fact that the disowned child part of the self, the spontaneous, emotional source within the personality, it may be a jealous child, an envious child, a resentful child, is not given a chance to speak. The person's inner feelings will be rooted in this infant but they are not expressed.
