Maybe I missed it but I think you may have your path to bridge the gap between the concept of narcissists not having an ego and how that concept does not compute in the common tongue world.
"He didn't have an ego. He had an id, only an id."
I probably have heard it put that way before but nothing comes to memory. Interestingly, the original published subtitle of The Putin Illusion was the Wizard of Id, both for the Wizard of Oz reference of course & he like many pathological narcissists seems to be pure Id, often as a defense mechanism to avoid thinking about things often too hard to think about, or at least that is a side benefit of pure Id.
Maybe I missed it but I think you may have your path to bridge the gap between the concept of narcissists not having an ego and how that concept does not compute in the common tongue world.
"He didn't have an ego. He had an id, only an id."
I probably have heard it put that way before but nothing comes to memory. Interestingly, the original published subtitle of The Putin Illusion was the Wizard of Id, both for the Wizard of Oz reference of course & he like many pathological narcissists seems to be pure Id, often as a defense mechanism to avoid thinking about things often too hard to think about, or at least that is a side benefit of pure Id.
"A narcissist is a predator, and of course if everyone is a predator, there's no prey left."
100%,
that's why the US DOD created social media