““A child can only experience his feelings when there is someone there who fully accepts them, names them and supports them. Another consequence of this emotional abandonment is the loss of a sense of self. When used as another’s narcissistic supplies, a person develops in such a way as to reveal only what is expected of him and ultimately fuses with his own act or performance. He becomes a “human doing” without any real sense of his authentic self. According to Winnicotti, his true self remains in a “state of noncommunication.””
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