Among other contributions on the subject, Meissner’s view9 is worth mentioning because of its clarity of style. In discussing narcissism and the paranoid process, he commented, “Envious feelings are frequently identifiable in narcissist patients [and are caused by] feelings of deprivation and resentful entitlement.” Such experience of humiliation, he stated, is linked both to masochism and sadism: “Narcissistic patients enjoy sadistically humiliating others, just as their own humiliating superego afflicts them.”
How envy becomes a narcissistic issue
In the envious person, the persistence of an archaic, grandiose, and omnipotent sense of self is a necessary condition for the pathological manifestations of envy. As a vital element to his mental equilibrium, the envious person must feel or believe that he is entitled to all that is good and valuable. As psychoanalytic inquiry has demonstrated,6-10 being narcissistic sets the stage for a propensity to catastrophic reactions to perceived slights or…
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