While reading the flight, freeze, flight, fawn, types of responses people can learn when they have endured an unhealthy childhood - this was very interesting reading; (I have often thought that those who continually fight, and like to argue, harass, get nasty and defensive - seem very narcissistic, entitled and nasty. Seems I was right). The Fight Type and the Narcissistic Defense Fight types are unconsciously driven by the belief that power and control can create safety, assuage abandonment and secure love. Children who are spoiled and given insufficient limits (a uniquely painful type of abandonment) and children who are allowed to imitate the bullying of a narcissistic parent may develop a fixated fight response to being triggered. These types learn to respond to their feelings of abandonment with anger and subsequently use contempt, a toxic amalgam of narcissistic rage and disgust, to intimidate and shame others into mirroring them and into acting as extensions of themselves. The entitled fight type commonly uses others as an audience for his incessant monologizing, and may treat a captured freeze or fawn type as a slave or prisoner in a dominance-submission relationship. Especially devolved fight types may become sociopathic, ranging along a continuum that stretches between corrupt politician and vicious criminal.
Posted on: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 00:14:27 +0000
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