Narcissism was classically described by Freud as an absence or disturbance of “object libido,” he writes. “The beauty of the world holds no allure, no echo that draws our notice,” he says. The soul of the individual can not be separated and treated apart from the world and its zeitgeist, he argues. “Philosophy seems more cold and callous to the plight of the soul in the shipwreck” than ever before, he adds. In cosmogony, death-of-God theology, chaos theory, postmodern deconstructionism, and physics. Narcissism is a disorder in the realm of beauty, rather than a disorder of individual patients.

We should recognize that narcissists suffer from an addiction problem, just like any addict. The soul of the individual can not be separated and treated apart from the world and its zeitgeist. In cosmogony, speculation about the origin of the cosmos invents big bangs, black holes, and gas storms without a thought about its beauty, he argues. “Philosophy seems more cold and callous to the plight of the soul in the shipwreck of the world than ever before. We are left with fractals and wittily named particles of theoretical physics. The junk merchant doesn’t sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client. Lies don’t end relationships the truth does