Narcissistic Mortification
Trump is undergoing something called NARCISSISTIC MORTIFICATION. We dusted off this Freudian term a few weeks ago, and it's super-relevant today, after Trump heard Hope Hicks' testimony and relived the Access Hollywood incident. Sure enough, he's been panic-posting today, ALL CAPS, going after Jack Smith and others. (Why Jack Smith, who has nothing to do with the NY criminal trial? Because he's an adversary with power to take him down, and that's the kind of jumpy associations that panicky people make.)
Narcissistic Mortification is when a narcissist like Trump crosses over to a place where he sees visions of his own demise. A malignant narcissist, especially one who once held the loftiest of titles, cannot cope with this. Trump's gut is now a simmering stew of dread, rage, and malice. But it's the "dread" that's dominant. He is very unhinged, yet uncomfortable in the feeling itself, if that makes sense.
To put it in more psychological terms, narcissistic mortification is EXTREME fear experienced when one with a rigidly grandiose pathology sees his sense of self as exposed, defective or inferior. It was coined by Freud in his book Moses and Monotheism. It's described there as deep injuries to ego/self, triggered by one's own compulsiveness (aka Access Hollywood), causing not only terror, not only malice, but disorientation (thus the attack on Smith).
THIS is where I think he is. For a malignant narcissist like Trump, it's hell.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_mortification
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