7 Phases of Shared Fantasy: Why Narcissist Needs YOU - Analysis about Narcissism. This is a summary of my shared fantasy-dual mothership framework for the narcissist’s intimate interpersonal relationships. 7 Stages of shared fantasy: 1. Co-Idealization (lovebombing, introject and narcissist all good because he owns object) 2. Dual mothership in a shared fantasy (recreation of childhood) 3. Need to reenact separation leads to mental discard which results in narcissistic injury (narcissist not omniscient, his judgment was wrong) 4. Devaluation of external object to restore grandiosity (make ego-congruent sense of the discard of an hitherto idealized object). 5. Devaluation of introject via splitting defense (introject now all-bad, narcissist grandiosely all-good) 6. Real life discard: projection of introject to you in an attempt to integrate it with external object. Projection-integration fails owing to abandonment anxiety triggered by introject inconstancy and your refusal to own split,…