Narcissism is a form of self-refusal which aims at neutralizing the contingent portions of the self. It is clear that such a neutralization cannot succeed because the self is nothing but the placeholder of contingency. It exists only above the abyss of an inconsistency which is the ontological name of its selfness. The narcissistic self-refusal is attempt to minimize contact to this abyss, which marks an emptiness, the experience of which can be vertiginous. The narcissist will always do everything to substitute his abysmal self for a an imaginary one. He will always claim the center and meaning for himself, while declaring all that is outside to be peripheral and without meaning.