“Narcissistic rage occurs when that core instability is threatened and furthermore threatened to destabilize them even further.”— Mark Goulston, psychologytoday.com
“And just as Hamlet’s mother said, “the lady doth protest too much,” “the narcissist doth brag, scorn, talk down, primp and belittle too much” in order to continually prove to the world and themselves that they are larger than life. This is not to increase their self-esteem as much as it is to contin…”— Mark Goulston, psychologytoday.com
“What is at the core of narcissists is not what is often referred to as low self-esteem. I don’t think that is accurate, but something that the people around them say to themselves to mollify their own rage at the narcissist, i.e. 'Oh, they only act that way, because they lack self-esteem.' What is r…”— Mark Goulston, psychologytoday.com
“There is a saying that when you’re a hammer the world looks like a nail. When you’re a narcissist, the world looks like it should approve, adore, agree and obey you. Anything less than that feels like an assault and because of that a narcissist feels justified in raging back at it.”— Mark Goulston, psychologytoday.com