self-engrossment
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(EXCERPT FROM VAINGLORY) Both the subject and the other defend themselves aggressively. Each attacks in order to defend himself and is aggressive in order to destroy the destructive potential of the opponent. Thus, even the reasonable and deschematized division of opposing roles falls away, where the subject who dominates defends himself fiercely regardless of whether
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(EXCERPT FROM POSSESSION) The subject is vaingloried. He has passed through two stages: one constitutes vainglory, the other is constituted by it. First, the procedure was realized within itself. The narcissistic factors were networked to the last. The lower and upper subsystems were constructed causally. The substantial backgrounds formed an original unity that absorbed and
Spirit and Society 