What you've written dovetails with what Alexander Lowen talks about in his excellent little book,"Narcissism."
What he describes in the narcissistic character is a failure to develop empathy, sympathy, pity, or compassion for other people and the consequence for that being an inner life of isolation and paranoia, which is the flip side of empathy, being, in psychological terms,
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