„The romantic“, Georges Poulet writes, „is a human being discovering him or herself as the center”–just like the narcissistic subject. Falling back on the narcissistic imaginary has a stabilizing function. It bridges the abyss of non-sense by filling it with meaning. The narcissist lives his life trying to ignore his unlivable and insignificant affects. There is nothing he fears more than being touched by this void indicating a form of freedom which would make him the subject of its truth = ontological inconsistency.