![]() The narcissist and psychopath do not remember their previous tales because they are not invested with the emotions and cognitions that are integral parts of real memories. Tomorrow's confabulation often negates yesterday's. This is why narcissists and psychopaths often contradict themselves. These tenuous concocted fillers are subject to frequent revision as the narcissist's inner world and external circumstances evolve. But the narcissist fervently believes in their reality: He may not actually remember what had happened-but surely it could not have happened any other way! To outsiders, these fictional stopgaps appear as lies. In an attempt to compensate for the yawning gaps in memory, narcissists and psychopaths confabulate: They invent plausible "plug ins" and scenarios of how things might, could, or should have plausibly occurred. They get rid of any information that challenges their grandiose self-perception and the narrative they had constructed to explicate, excuse and legitimize their antisocial, self-centred and exploitative behaviors, choices and idiosyncrasies. ![]() Narcissists never experience reality directly but through a distorting lens darkly. Narcissists and psychopaths dissociate (erase memories) a lot (are amnesiac) because their contact with the world and with others is via a fictitious construct: The false self.
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