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Narcissism Book of Quotes

By: Sam Vaknin

...e State, (as well as a university lecturer)." "Yes, absolutely. It's not a disorder of intelligence. Far from it. My N graduated law school near th... ...living with, as Sam Vaknin has said, an encounter with 'the first carbon-based form of artificial intelligence'." "I had never known a real conman... ..., as Sam Vaknin has said, an encounter with 'the first carbon-based form of artificial intelligence'." "I had never known a real conman in my life... ...not referring to intellectualisation or rationalisation or simple application of their intelligence – this would not constitute introspection. Prope... ...sformed me into a reclusive and clownish disappointment. People are always misled by my intelligence into predicting a bright future for me and my w... ...ful, too high a price to pay. So, I stay home, alone and incommunicado. I inhabit the artificial bubble that is my world where I am king and countr... ...directory of links to psychological tests on the Web (especially personality, emotional intelligence, and relationship tests). Psychotherapeutic Ass...

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The Conundrums of Psychology

By: Sam Vaknin

...such as heartbeat) and mental reactions to pathogens of the brain are proof of the artificialness of this distinction. It is a result of the reduct... ...h the outside and is so intertwined with it that all distinctions between them are artificial and misleading. The best example is, of course, medic... ...persistent disorder or disability of mind (whether or not including subnormality of intelligence) which results in abnormally aggressive or seriousl... ...cursive functions. The brain can be regarded as a Turing Machine and the dreams of Artificial Intelligence are likely come true. 6. The brain mus... ...nctions. The brain can be regarded as a Turing Machine and the dreams of Artificial Intelligence are likely come true. 6. The brain must be a lear... ...at that something and supposedly interacts with it. But perhaps the distinction is artificial. Perhaps the mind is simply the way we experience our... ...at that something and supposedly interacts with it. But perhaps the distinction is artificial. Perhaps the mind is simply the way we experience our...

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Narcissistic and Psychopathic Leaders

By: Sam Vaknin

...r (NPD) are either "cerebral" (derive their Narcissistic Supply from their intelligence or academic achievements) or "somatic" (derive their Narcis... ..., the child's True Self is shielded from the toddler's harsh reality. This artificial, maladaptive separation between a vulnerable (but not punisha... ...ably proffers an aesthetic of decadence and evil carefully orchestrated and artificial - though it is not perceived this way by him or by his follo... ...achieve this by making use of some outstanding traits or skills such as his intelligence, or through an asymmetry built into a relationship. The na... ...atic narcissists. The cerebrals derive their Narcissistic Supply from their intelligence or academic achievements and the somatics derive their Narc... ...ably proffers an aesthetic of decadence and evil carefully orchestrated and artificial - though it is not perceived this way by him or by his follo... ...h it was not perceived this way by the Nazis), carefully orchestrated, and artificial. Nazism was about reproduced copies, not about originals. It...

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Abuse, Trauma, And Torture, And Their Consequences and Effects

By: Sam Vaknin

...r (NPD) are either "cerebral" (derive their Narcissistic Supply from their intelligence or academic achievements) or "somatic" (derive their Narcis... ..., the child's True Self is shielded from the toddler's harsh reality. This artificial, maladaptive separation between a vulnerable (but not punisha... ... Be guarded. Don't be too forthcoming in a first or casual meeting. Gather intelligence. Be yourself. Don't misrepresent your wishes, boundaries, ... ...xperience only the good aspects of living with a narcissist: his sparkling intelligence, the constant drama and excitement, the lack of intimacy an...

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The Malignan Self Love : Narcissism Revisited

By: Sam Vaknin

...ic Personality Disorder (NPD) are either "cerebral" (derive their Narcissistic Supply from their intelligence or academic achievements) or "somatic"... ...pe his predicament and to sublimate his aggressive urges. His whole behaviour seems constrained, artificial, and effortful. The narcissist gradually... ...inder of the self, nurses him and decides for him … with the deepest wisdom and most penetrating intelligence…" [Ferenczi and Sandor – "Notes and Fr... ...elves in maintaining these areas of their lives stable. Rather, this stability is safeguarded by artificial means: money, celebrity, power, fear. A ... ...y functions (such as heartbeat) and mental reactions to pathogens of the brain are proof of the artificialness of this distinction. It is a result o... ...interacts with the outside and is so intertwined with it that all distinctions between them are artificial and misleading. The best example is, of c... ... What to do? Be guarded. Don't be too forthcoming in a first or casual meeting. First, gather intelligence on your interlocutor. Be yourself. Don... ...s skills or his traits become the only ones applicable, or the most useful to coping with these artificial predicaments. It is a form of control by ...

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The Fundamental Assumptions Underlying the Modern Study of Psychopathology Examined.

By: Sam Vaknin

...and, in many cases, the fatal cuts run from the vagina into the abdomen. In boys an artificial vagina is even made ... One can connect a fetishistic... ... consenting partner finds the narcissist (or one or more of his traits, such as his intelligence, his physique, even his money) irresistible. The d...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...cursive functions. The brain can be regarded as a Turing Machine and the dreams of Artificial Intelligence are likely come true. 6. The brain mus... ...nctions. The brain can be regarded as a Turing Machine and the dreams of Artificial Intelligence are likely come true. 6. The brain must be a lear... ...he deepest senses of the words. In other words: it must have been intelligent. So, intelligence (we will use it hitherto as a catchphrase for the g... ...at Searle is talking about – not its programmer, or some other, external source of intelligence. The computer is devoid of intelligence, the Englis... ...e programmer (or who authored the book of instructions). Yet, is the SOURCE of the intelligence that important? Shouldn't we emphasize the LOCUS (s... ...raging foreign investors, encouraging inefficiencies and mismanagement, sustaining artificially high prices, misallocating very scarce resources, i... ...lexity usually points towards a natural source and a random origin. Complexity and artificiality are often incompatible. Artificial designs and ob... ...) contexts and environments. Natural objects are totally predictable and expected. Artificial creations are efficient and, therefore, simple and pa... ...l range. No intelligent engineer - human or not - would be so wasteful. Confusing artificiality with complexity is not the only terminological con...

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Aesthetics

By: Florentin Smaradanche

...that irritation in regard to the world, because he does it with a refined intelligence, a superior spirit and a good-heartedness that conquers you. A... ... silence” (Jean-Michel Levenard). Of a particular significance for the intelligence of the movement is the Ion Rotaru’s “pseudo-essay” (in order ... ...iterary and political discourse, psycho- and biosemiotic matters, design, artificial intelligence, artistic and religious discourse. Like the presen... ... political discourse, psycho- and biosemiotic matters, design, artificial intelligence, artistic and religious discourse. Like the present life, the... ...as been so maintained a continuos provocation of the gratuity, the wanted artificial, a new histrionic availability, a metatextual inventiveness, a ... ...the accentuation of the insuportability of the ever dilated “alarm of the intelligence” (Al. Paleologu). The paradoxist charge is situated on the ap... ...not in paradoxism? -, the acceptance of the assimilated literature of the artificial, of the inauthentic, of the nothingness is compromised. “The e... ...f disappears”? We speak, of course, of that assimilated literature of the artificial, of the inauthentic, of the nothingness... From the moment the... ...arity attacks the academic or pudic hypocrisy, the derision laughs at the artificial sobriety, the play relaxes the routine logic, the elliptic bante...

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The Analysis of Mind

By: Bertrand Russell

...wo views are diametrically opposite: the first leads us to level up animal intelligence with what we believe ourselves to know about our own intellige... ...igence, while the second leads us to at- tempt a levelling down of our own intelligence to something not too remote from what we can observe in animal... ...which may often occur automatically, but may also be modified by conscious intelligence. “ An outside observer, unable to perceive the accompanying co... ...he attainment of a supposed end, all the acts alike seem to be inspired by intelligence, for appropriate- ness characterizes them all alike. “ There i... ...ubt many cases to which such a supposition is applicable without obvi- ous artificiality. But the deeper the Freudians delve into the underground regi... ...s of the brain and nerves. But they are not explained, unless with extreme artificiality, by any theory which regards the latent effects of experience... ... the ‘thoughts’ and the ‘knowing.’ This scheme, with all its mag- nificent artificiality, James held on to until the end, simply dropping the term con... ... raises are not very difficult, though they have sometimes been ren- dered artificially obscure by unwillingness to admit the falli- bility of the non... ...ccurred in circumstances which affected the supply of adrenin, and that an artificial injection of adrenin could, for example, produce all the symp- t...

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The Varieties of Religious Experience

By: William James

... in us, the reasoned argument is but a surface exhibition. Instinct leads, intelligence does but fol- low. If a person feels the presence of a living ... ...he Infinite Life, do we make ourselves channels through which the Infinite Intelligence and Power can work. In just the degree in which you realize yo... ...had personally always led, the cerebral life, the life of conventionality, artificiality, and personal ambition. He had been living wrongly and must c... ...y found them. [99] Jouffroy is an example: “Down this slope it was that my intelligence had glided, and little by little it had got far from its first... ...ly what I am ordered. I must consider myself as a corpse which has neither intelligence nor will; be like a mass of matter which without resistance le... ...ar, let them hear; to me the living sense of its reality only comes in the artificial mystic state of mind.[231] I just now spoke of friends who belie... ... comparing the results of Yoga with those of the hypnotic or dreamy states artificially producible by us, says: “It makes of its true disciples good, ... ..., of critical investigations, it never was anything but an abstraction. An artificial and dead creation, it reveals to its examiner hardly one of the ... ...eties of Religious Experience possible without our going to the expense of artificial light. The beasts of the field can find food by day which they w...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

...tual life involving eternal consequences, with a keen interest in gimp and artificial pro- trusions of drapery. Her mind was theoretic, and yearned by... ...Dorothea this was adorable genuineness, and religious abstinence from that artificiality which uses up the soul in the efforts of pretence. For she lo... ...he action of medicaments. But results which depend on human conscience and intelligence work slowly, and now at the end of 1829, most medical prac- ti... ...and younger, and the provision for passing the time with- out any labor of intelligence, might make the house beguiling to people who had no particula... ... quite safe with a creature like this Miss Vincy, who had just the kind of intelligence one would desire in a woman—polished, refined, docile, lending... ...tness of Dorothea’s confession.) “Art is an old language with a great many artificial affected styles, and sometimes the chief pleasure one gets out o... ...g (for coal). In fact, he had a rever- ential soul with a strong practical intelligence. But he could not manage finance: he knew values well, but he ... ...s, trying prose and finding it too jejune, trying verse and finding it too artificial, beginning to copy “bits” from old pictures, leaving off because... ... he is a spooney. Fred did not enter into formal reasons, which are a very artificial, inexact way of represent- ing the tingling returns of old habit...

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Grailem

By: Gary L Beer

...s and he had long wished for the release of death. The only part of him that is human is his brain; and this has been incorporated completely into an artificial body. The body had been especially designed to cope with all environments; including the vacuum of space, but with the vital flaw of no propulsion system. The long held dream that Man could eventually conquer d...

...Mankind had been incorporating humans with artificial limbs and internal organs for generations. The more that Man depended on technology, the physically weaker the human race had become. Many humans were regularly being born with disabilities like missing limbs, blin...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...pt themselves and their own natures almost without thinking about it. Their behavior is marked by simplicity and naturalness and by a lack of artifi... ...!‖ —―I read about her. She had written books and was a TV personality. So she was obviously smart as well as successful. So if she has intell... ...le with a self-centered power drive on one end and an altruistic love need on the other--men and women can be found along the whole scale. The artifi... ...The kinds of love were differentiated according to: The qualifications of the persons who were to be the subjects of the loving actions—their intell... ...as. Social learning theory, assuming it is true, makes us want to provide the best environment for our children and adults. We discourage the artifi... ...el past the point where the parents could cope, the actual life of the child in a one parent household, or a number of other reasons, even the intell... ... he is, what is good, and the direction their lives should take. This person should be experiencing life fully and be totally absorbed in it. Intell...

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Sons and Lovers

By: D. H. Lawrence

... worked up- stairs at the heavy tasks of truss-making and the finishing of artificial limbs. He waited for Mr. Pappleworth, not knowing what to do, si... ... got beyond the second page. He read a great deal, and had a quick, active intelligence. She could un- derstand nothing but love-making and chatter. H... ...sed him very much. Yet to Annie he said: “Such rot! there isn’t a grain of intelligence in it. No- body with more gumption than a grasshopper could go... ...“I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me,” she said. “That’s a stiff, artificial notion,” he said. “They don’t die any quicker in water than on t...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Five

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...oks, we should have passed the time pleasantly enough, but for the fearful intelligence which reached us every morning from the populous city. Not a d... ...ith the two latter the means. The poet of the “Creation” wished, by highly artificial verse, to inculcate what he supposed to be moral truth-the poet ... ...hool will be found inferior to those results in one (ceteris paribus) more artificial. We can not bring ourselves to believe that the selections of th... ...throne; Her woods—her wilds—her mountains-the intense Reply of Hers to Our intelligence! I In youth I have known one with whom the Earth ...

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Memories and Portraits

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...d by anecdote. I once travelled with a man of plausible man- ners and good intelligence – a University man, as the phrase goes – a man, besides, who h... ... as his spectacles; that the mouth may be compressed and the brow smoothed artificially, but the sheen of the barnacles is diagnostic. And truly it mu... ...uld follow and retain so long a story. But John denied these creatures all intelligence; they were the constant butt of his passion and contempt; it w... ... way home, with the two recov- ered ones before them. So far, so good; but intelligence may be abused. The dog, as he is by little man’s inferior in m... ... them the dew of man’s morning; they lie near, not so much to us, the semi-artificial flowerets, as to the trunk and aboriginal taproot of the race. A... ... In its express, technical sense, a bea- con may be defined as “a founded, artificial sea-mark, not lighted.” 60 Robert Louis Stevenson these proceed... ...xpected and precious. Throughout there has been perfect sincerity, perfect intelligence, a desire to hear although not always to listen, and an unaffe... ...must find either an old man, a woman, or some one so far below them in the artificial order of society, that courtesy may he particularly exercised. T... ...actics among the true drawing-room queens. The drawing-room is, indeed, an artificial place; it is so by our choice and for our sins. The subjection o...

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