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Grandiose SelfWhat Kohut and others call the grandiose self is actually the
Essential Identity, or more accurately, the condition of the soul
as it is patterned by the Essential Identity in the practicing
period. We hasten to clarify that this normal grandiose self of
the practicing period is not the same as the grandiose self of
the narcissistic adult. The latter is a psychic structure, not
an essential Presence. So where does the narcissistic grandiose
self come from? It is an imitation of the Essential Identity,
a fake "shell" which develops around the end of the
practicing period and the beginning of the rapprochement subphase.
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