Narcissism’s demand for repeated recognition flattens the other into sameness.

Evidence

Conditioning the very existence of the narcissist, mirroring also composes their primal demand: the reflection must be repeated. One selfie is never enough. An insistence on recognition is at the core, often distending into demands to be recognized in a particular way, and flattening the other as mirror, mere vehicle of reflection. This negation of the other perpetuates sameness: where there is no opacity or desire, there is no contradiction and no distinction, only replicating identity. It also flirts with psychosis, an overinvestment of libido in the self as object, repudiating representation, propounding paranoia; there is something of the psychotic’s experience in immediacy’s pendulating between unison and cacophony. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 90

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘one selfie is never enough’ mechanism is the psychic-level analog of circulation’s demand-saturation loop — reinforces her economic thesis. — connects to: Narcissism makes maternal and lesbian lovers equivalent in structure.; Authentic artistry requires self-transcendence, which narcissism precludes — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1818; The narcissist’s self-relation is doomed because no double exists — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1834 (+1 more)