You Are Preoccupied with Fantasies about Success and Perfection
It’s one thing to strive for success and perfection, but narcissists are different in that their rage and dissatisfaction is always bubbling near the surface—even after attaining their fantasies. Serani says that the damage done in the narcissist occurs very young in life, where the sense of self doesn’t develop cohesively. “The narcissist is aware of these deficiencies, so the dreams, fantasies, or aspirations for the best, the most, the perfect, are deeply wished for to remedy the pathological defect,” she explains.