but an inability to do so, is displayed quite differently in the narcissist. The narcissist operates with an insatiable appetite. The infant rarely experiences satiation due to a lack of limitations being put in place by a competent caregiver who can help the infant manage rage, the narcissist sees each potential interpersonal relationship as someone to feed off of. The narcissist has no ability to trust the potential mate. This pathology allows the narcissistic person to use a mate as a primary object much as the infant does a primary caregiver. The narcissist, like the infant, is incapable of empathy, and life and love become a feeding frenzy. This is also an infant, in which no limitations were set during the developmental stage of autonomy, resulting in adult who is constantly seeking more. Sadly, the narcissist genuinely believes he or she deserves infinite power, praise, and love. All others are valueless and inconsequential. People are treated identically to objects and used purely as pleasure devices. Last is the paranoid personality, who projects an inability to trust onto every relationship. These infants were not only left hungry but also usually neglected severely during the autonomous stage. They received no parental feedback other than possibly that of annoyance. The paranoid seeks minimal bonds but is never able to believe the other person to be anything but exploitive and disingenuous. They distort simple situations into plots against them. These beliefs perpetuate themselves reinforcing the paranoid’s belief that everyone uses everyone. They appear to have some autonomy but it is really resentment about being emotionally starved and neglected as an infant. `These adults are quick to anger and unable to trust another enough to be soothed. They do not possess the ability to soothe themselves; therefore the paranoid indulges in his or her anger as a defense against the need for satisfaction and lov...
