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1 " It said, “There seems to be an absence in him of deep emotional response, coupled with an inability to profit from experience. He is the kind of individual who is subject to committing asocial acts with impunity. He lacks a sense of guilt, he seems bereft of a strong conscience, and he appears incapable of emotionally close or mutually cooperative relationships with women. “Derivatively, he apparently avoided, even resented, the demands on him to fulfill the responsibilities of having been a husband and a father of female children. Parenthood, for him, may have been viewed as threatening and potentially destructive.” The report also said, “He is subject to being amnesic concerning what he would wish to blot out from his consciousness and very conscience. His credibility leaves much to be desired. In testing, he proved himself to be considerably pathological and impulsive, with feministic characteristics and concealed anger. He has a disdain for others with whom he differs and he is subject to respond with anger when his person is questioned, on whatever basis. "
― Joe McGinniss , Fatal Vision
2 " I think everybody needs a father of sorts. Somebody that they can talk to or lean on or cry on his shoulder once in a while. And I don’t know who that person would be in my brother’s case, after my father passed away. There was no one alive that would be an adequate substitute. If he was looking to me for guidance, he didn’t see any, and so he went on his own. "
3 " He handles his conflicts by denying that they even exist. He is not in touch with his feelings and essentially is not comfortable with himself. He has only an authoritarian image of himself as the machismo type of male. "
4 " Kernberg has found narcissistic patients to be filled with “intense hatred and fear of the image of a dangerous, aggressive mother,” a fear which, he says, “represents a projection of his own aggression, linked to the rage caused by his frustration by mother. "
5 " Should such a “dreaded relationship” (such as marriage) materialize, the complex defense mechanism which has been constructed within the psyche of the pathological narcissist would come under severe stress, because, as Christopher Lasch notes, such a person perceives the female, “child or woman, wife or mother,” as a monster who “cuts men to ribbons or swallows them whole.” Thus, in Lasch’s view, “fear of the devouring mother of the pre-Oedipal fantasy gives rise to a generalized fear of women,” and this fear, “closely associated with a fear of the consuming desires within, reveals itself . . . as a boundless rage against the female sex.” * "
6 " If necessary, we can then contact the Smith Kline & French representative near here who can testify I never received another large bottle of sample Eskatrol. "
7 " Tagg seemed an appealing guy. He was cynical, pessimistic, dour, irritable, sardonic, acerbic, and hot-tempered: all the qualities I most admire in a man. “You can’t help the personality God has given you,” a trainer who’d known Tagg for many years once explained, but there were those who thought that Tagg could have tried a little harder. "
― Joe McGinniss , The Big Horse
8 " As to obsessive-compulsive features, I mean that the person is usually very, very careful to include in his thinking and in his planning all possible angles and all possible details of that particular situation, program, issue that he is dealing with. “This type of person does not feel at ease saying, well, let’s not worry about that. Everything needs to be worried about and everything needs to be accounted for. And this type of person gets ill at ease when all things are not accounted for. "
