psychosis is defined in terms of a subject who has lost “control of himself”, who “cannot control his instinctive forces” – who, in short, behaves in a “socially maladjusted way”. The paradox of “pathological Narcissus” lies in the fact that he is a psychotic normal person: the pathological narcissus behaves “normally” in a “socially adjusted way”

SLAVOJ ZIZEK (via slavoj-zizek) http://ift.tt/2fasAem