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Kernberg described narcissism as a defense against borderline personality organization. This is why borderline is described as failed narcissism. Borderlines have a False Self but it fulfills different roles to the narcissist and co-exists and conflicts with the True Self. This conflict leads to emotional dysregulation and other clinical features of BPD. Identity diffusion or disturbance: not experiencing the Self, life as no one, a mask, fake. It is an impulsive attempt to fill in, counter, or distract from the emptiness or absence by experimenting with different identities and thus engendering unpredictable outcomes (trying on roles). Borderlines are obsessed with finding an organizing narrative (who am I). Instead of a failed external constitution of the True Self (via interactions with Others, selfobjects, mother) - external regulation via a False Self: inauthenticity, pretend play. Borderlines recreate themselves on the fly (grandiose fantasies) because they distrust reality to do it for them (Helene Deutsch’s “as if” personality). False Self is dynamic, primary and also conscious and secondary as a role, a defense. Borderlines are capable of lying and gaslighting because, unlike narcissists, they can tell the differences between fantasy and reality. But this gives rise to an impostor syndrome. Living via other people or experiencing other people’s lives leads to chronic feelings of incoherence, inauthenticity, guilt, estrangement, dissociative processes, terror, vagueness, uncertainty (hence catastrophizing abandonment), helplessness, and stasis. Still, not psychosis. Closer to DID: False Self coopts all the optimal or maximal resources (e.g., the intellect) and suppresses suboptimal ones (e.g., the sensorimotor or psychosomatic). This creates a disconnect, a dissociation between the 2 classes of resources and identity problems. True Self feels real and is creative. False Self is fantasy-based and is regurgitative. But: there is no narrative without identity! Narrative is created by an identity to maintain its sense of diachronic unity and cohesiveness and to get to know, discover itself. There is no self-knowledge and self-discovery without an antecedent Self. However, how do the various Agents know that they belong to the same Team? In BPD, they fail to realize it! So, Borderlines inability to generate a self-narrative is the outcome not the cause of their diffuse or disturbed identity. Preverbal Self (Bollas’s unknown thought) as tacit organizing principle or template (Laszlo Tengelyi’s archaeology of the self and dan Zahavi’s minimal self). These are metaphysical speculations, not grounded in clinical or laboratory observations. LITERATURE Bois C, Fazakas I, Salles J, Gozé T. Personal Identity and Narrativity in Borderline Personality Disorder: A Phenomenological Reconfiguration. Psychopathology. 2023;56(3):183-193. doi: 10.1159/000526222. Epub 2022 Sep 22. PMID: 36137507. Find and Buy MOST of my BOOKS and eBOOKS in my Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/60...