Narcissism

“In the end the narcissist must compensate for this core vulnerability he carries and as a result an overestimation of his own importance arises.”
- Joshua Braff

Is this really so? Is narcissism a form of vulnerability, the display of a sense of inferiority and a sense of (shared) mutual quest for acceptance? I doubt it. I think that narcissism is the sum of features such as vanity, egocentrism, self-interest. Narcissists love themselves at such an extent that other people merely exist, and are so self-centred that everything turns around them. Narcissists cannot be insecure. Insecure people might display their feelings in a similar way, but if you take for example Ovid, he clearly states in his Metamorphoses that Narcissus was so proud that he even disdained those who loved him. Insecureness would not disdain. On the contrary, vulnerable people would tend to depend on other people’s opinion, feelings and lives. Narcissists would not.