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The Suffering of Being Kafka

By: Sam Vaknin

...ng relic and the putrid sheet concealing it. The next day, it was hauled by sturdy garbage collectors into a truck and, with assorted other junk, i... ...lips forced into a tortuous smile. "It's over" – he mumbles – "let's get out of here." I collect my winnings from the board and proudly display th... .... I use the paper ball to soak it up. It's dripping. I gallop down the spiral staircase and collect another roll, adhesive bandages, and dressing. I... ...love. I study him at length and he does not divert his eyes. Suddenly he smiles and dimples collect around his lips. He flings his hands high up and... ...g here and now, in this very atrium, amid all the extravagance. I am selling your soul and collecting the change. I am sharpened, like a raw nerve ... ... bow-tied waiters. These take their orders, serve them, replace the over spilling ashtrays, collect the checks, and smile profusely at the favoured ...

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...inted with the tales - many apocryphal, some real - of how art critiques, curators, collectors and buyers were fooled into purchasing "works of art"... ... of the sun) to be 365 days and 6 hours. Every fourth year the extra six hours were collected and added as an extra day to the year, creating a leap... ...sion Program (VICAP). VICAP is a nationwide data information center designed to collect, collate, and analyze crimes of violence - specifically ... ...e being a woman and fantasized about gender reassignment. He was not shy about his collections and even showed them to visitors. For many years, Ed... ...bridled avarice-driven or gratuitous violence, especially in the territories known collectively today as the United States. But the first massacre ... ... have devastated this cultural depository. On August 24, 1814, the Library's core collection of 3,000 volumes was destroyed when the British burne... ...tary Joseph Stalin (1879- 1953), reinstated agricultural production quotas in 1929, collectivized all arable land, and criminalized private trading ... ...ry/index/presidency.html Prions Prions are aberrant proteins that cause diseases collectively known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.... ...d - are not rare, though highly valued by philatelists. The two immediately became collectors' items. Perforation was introduced only in 1848- 54. ...

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Facts and Fictions in the Securities Industry

By: Sam Vaknin

...gence coordinator. This person interfaces with all outside due diligence teams. He collects all the materials requested and oversees all the activi... ...ounting systems used; • Methods to price products and services; • Payment terms, collections of debts and ageing of receivables; • Introduction... ...is ability and with the appropriate dedication of the time and efforts required. Collection and Credit Assessment 1. To construct and implement c... ...e changes in the credit risk rating of said factors. 3. To analyse receivables and collectibles on a regular and timely basis. 4. To improve the ... .... 5. To collaborate with legal institutions, law enforcement agencies and private collection firms in assuring the timely flow and payment of all ... ...imely flow and payment of all due payments, arrears and overdue payments and other collectibles. 6. To coordinate an educational campaign to ensur... ...s starkly contrast with market realities. No one buys shares because he expects to collect an uninterrupted and equiponderant stream of future inco... ...is possible, the stock price increases implying that the cost of capital is lower. Collectively, the empirical evidence suggests that short-sale co... ...and then sell it as a going concern, or close it, pay off the depositors and try to collect the loans. At times, the FDIC ends up owning collateral ...

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Narcissism Book of Quotes

By: Sam Vaknin

... Narcissism Book of Quotes A SELECTION OF QUOTES FROM THE COLLECTIVE WISDOM OF OVER 12,000 INDIVIDUAL DISCUSSIONS ... ...hat ought to scare the heck out of him and get him off your back. In the meantime keep collecting evidence – his own words and mean- spirited action... ...d.com/archive12.html "This kind of narcissist jealously guards his possessions – his collections, his furniture, his cars, his children, his women... ...reminders of their past glory and of their potential future grandeur. Many narcissists collect proofs and trophies of their sexual prowess, dramati... .../www.suite101.com/article.cfm/npd/97535 "The deceived are people – or institutions, or collectives – deliberately taken for a premeditated ride by ... ...m the first moments of an encounter with another person, the abuser is on the prowl. He collects information. The more he knows about his potential ... ...ere and now, in this very atrium, amid all the extravagance. I am selling your soul and collecting the change. I am sharpened, like a raw nerve firi... ...tellectual pyrotechnics. Many narcissists brag about their wealth, health, possessions, collections, spouses, children, personal history, family tre...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...anding) rules. There is absolutely no biological test or restriction on joining the collective that is known as the Jewish people or the religion th... ...e are narcissists and megalomaniacs everywhere and among the members of any human collective. Hitler and his Aryan superiority is a good example. ... ...The Arabs, exhausted by decades of conflict and backwardness, are likely to heave a collective sigh of relief and embrace Israel - reluctantly at fi... ...s sometimes called by philosophers and psychologists "a-priori categories", or "the collective unconscious". Computers and their programming evolve... ...tion (division) arrangements; 4. Allocation of sales or production by quota; 5. Collective action to enforce arrangements, e.g., by concerted re... ...d refusals to deal; 6. Concerted refusal to sell to potential importers; and 7. Collective denial of access to an arrangement, or association, w... ...sting application of a concept (or a predicate). When is a person tall? When does a collection of sand grains become a heap (the sorites or heap par... ...niacal equivalents of savings accounts. Rather they are of the nature of compulsive collections. Erstwhile president of Sierra Leone, Momoh, amasse... ...orms of cognition and affect. The artist probes our subconscious, both private and collective. Crime The state has a monopoly on behaviour usually...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...anding) rules. There is absolutely no biological test or restriction on joining the collective that is known as the Jewish people or the religion th... ...e are narcissists and megalomaniacs everywhere and among the members of any human collective. Hitler and his Aryan superiority is a good example. ... ...The Arabs, exhausted by decades of conflict and backwardness, are likely to heave a collective sigh of relief and embrace Israel - reluctantly at fi... ...s sometimes called by philosophers and psychologists "a-priori categories", or "the collective unconscious". Computers and their programming evolve... ...tion (division) arrangements; 4. Allocation of sales or production by quota; 5. Collective action to enforce arrangements, e.g., by concerted re... ...d refusals to deal; 6. Concerted refusal to sell to potential importers; and 7. Collective denial of access to an arrangement, or association, w... ...sting application of a concept (or a predicate). When is a person tall? When does a collection of sand grains become a heap (the sorites or heap par... ...niacal equivalents of savings accounts. Rather they are of the nature of compulsive collections. Erstwhile president of Sierra Leone, Momoh, amasse... ...orms of cognition and affect. The artist probes our subconscious, both private and collective. Crime The state has a monopoly on behaviour usually...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

...eighbourhood (even if they are not made privy to the customer information collected by Amazon). The Honour System looks suspiciously similar ... ...r and allows for the existence of non-commercial content. It proposes to collect negligible sums (cents or fractions of cents) from every user for e... ...t of the sites and software on the Net. Those which survive will begin to collect usage fees, access fees, subscription fees, downloading fees and o... ...wners and distributors to identify their intellectual property with bound collections of related resources at a hyperlink's point of departure, inste... ...onic content eBbook software Developers to enable management of personal collections of eBooks including purchase receipt information as reference ... ...were reduced to providing access to dull card catalogues and unimaginative collections of web links. The more daring added online exhibits and digiti... ...ections of web links. The more daring added online exhibits and digitized collections. A typical library web site is still comprised of static repre... ...books at all. They are software products. Libraries have pioneered digital collections (as they have other information technologies throughout histor... ...n, and narratives. Interactive e-books, multimedia, discussion lists, and collective authorship efforts restore this great tradition. Moreover, as in...

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The Malignan Self Love : Narcissism Revisited

By: Sam Vaknin

...ority FAQ # 70: For the Love of God FAQ # 71: The Narcissist and Social Institutions FAQ # 72: Collective Narcissism (Narcissism, Culture and Socie... ...oucault and Louis Althusser observed. Relegating both the dangerous and the idiosyncratic to the collective fringes is a vital technique of social e... ...The Self and the Object World. New York, International Universities Press, 1964 15. Jung, C.G. Collected Works. G. Adler, M. Fordham and H. Read (... ...ngeable with other emotions, such as awe, respect, admiration, attention, or even being feared (collectively known as Narcissistic Supply). Thus, to... ... the individual. To love oneself is to have the perfect lover. Good reasons and strong forces – collectively known as "parental love" – are required... ...erted narcissist grows up in a stifling environment, whether it is an orthodox, hyper-religious, collectivist, or traditionalist culture, a monovale... ...rcissists, psychopaths, and abuse in relationships FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION # 72 Collective Narcissism Narcissism, Culture and Soc... ..." or respect. "In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is 'God's gift to the world'. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is 'God's gift ... ... of self-regard (in individualistic societies) … are rather self-contained and independent… (In collectivist cultures) narcissistic configurations ...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...mnipotent and invincible. They are extroverted and psychopathic. Read the article Collective Narcissism Read about Christopher Lasch HERE. This pa... ...y transacted with the administration. When erstwhile state functions - such as tax collection - were privatized, they moved in and benefited mighti... ...n the Roman republic was enshrined in the centuriate assembly (the army as a voting collective) and the consuls, magistrates in chief were, invariab... ...the Love of God Islam and Liberalism Dialog about anti-Semitism Narcissistic Leaders Collective Narcissism Hitler - The Inverted Saint Narcissism in t... ... threat with (constitutionally dubious) arrests. The immediate result was that tax collection (by the outlandishly corrupt tax authorities) increas... ...so traumatized tourism, another major regional foreign exchange earner. Egypt alone collects $4 billion a year from eager pyramid-gazers - about one... ...ntees. Israel, the largest American foreign and military aid recipient, is already collecting c. $3 billion annually. It is followed by Egypt with ... ...e third of GDP and public debt exceeds it. In a reversal of decades of tradition, collective wage agreements will be abolished. The finance minist... ... concluded gloomily. Israel withholds more than $400 million in back taxes it had collected on behalf of the Palestinian Authority. Business Week ...

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Abuse, Trauma, And Torture, And Their Consequences and Effects

By: Sam Vaknin

...ply. The narcissist invests an inordinate time in substantiating his tales, collecting "evidence", defending his version of events, and in re- inter... ...ect World. New York, International Universities Press, 1964 14. Jung, C.G. Collected Works. G. Adler, M. Fordham and H. Read (Eds.). 21 volumes. Pr... ... individualistic culture, the narcissist is 'God's gift to the world'. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is 'God's gift to the collective'."... ...ndividualistic societies) … are rather self-contained and independent … (In collectivist cultures) narcissistic configurations of the we-self … deno... ...channelled against minorities – in others it is tainted with paranoia. In collectivist societies, it may be projected onto the collective, in indi... ...elf-absorbed"? Can we talk about a "corporate culture of narcissism"? Human collectives – states, firms, households, institutions, political parties... ...moments of an encounter with another person, the abuser is on the prowl. He collects information. The more he knows about his potential victim – th... ... up in a stifling environment, whether it is an orthodox, hyper-religious, collectivist, or traditionalist culture, a monovalent, "black and white"...

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The Fundamental Assumptions Underlying the Modern Study of Psychopathology Examined.

By: Sam Vaknin

... right to criticize and chastise others for having or displaying them. When entire collectives (nations, groups, organizations, firms) project, Fre... ...t is not clear how they come to recognize the mother so quickly. To say that they collect mental images which they then arrange into a prototypica... ...t - attention, unconditional acceptance, adulation, admiration, affirmation - are collectively known as "narcissistic supply". The narcissist obje... ...us to penetrate this confusion." [Page 67] Also read On Empathy To Age with Grace Collective Narcissism Narcissist, the Machine Narcissistic Confin... ... In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is 'God's gift to the world'. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is 'God's gift to the colle... ...rocess of hacking ... inasmuch as parts of the body are removed and ... made into a collection." Yet, the sexuality of the serial, psychopathic, ki... ...nic responses? In other words, why is incest considered a taboo in all known human collectives and cultures? Why are incestuous liaisons treated so... ...uis Althusser observed. Relegating both the dangerous and the idiosyncratic to the collective fringes is a vital technique of social engineering. ...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...e products and then disseminate them free of charge. The development effort is done collectively, by volunteers. The Linux operating system is an ex... ... starkly contrast with market realities. No one buys shares because he expects to collect an uninterrupted and equiponderant stream of future inco... ...lties with youthful ferocity and tenacity. Businessmen amass superfluous wealth and collectors bid in auctions regardless of their age. We all - par... ...so Read: The Disruptive Engine - Innovation Forgent Networks from Texas wants to collect a royalty every time someone compresses an image using t... ...ut even here, in the old industrial landscape, the intellectual contribution to the collective effort will likely be outsourced to roving freelancer... ...hove – they recoil, retreat, defeated before staging a fight. Thus, they waste the collective resources of all that the operators that they get inv... ... provoking yet another conflict in Iraq to restart its stalled economy and take the collective mind off an endless stream of corporate sleaze. In t... ...ionally—might be, they are invulnerable to dollar devaluation. In effect, America’s collective current- account deficits are sustainable indefinitely... ... "In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is 'God's gift to the world'. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is 'God's gift to the colle...

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