True self and false self a personal mission by self-confessed narcissist and author Sam Vaknin to raise the profile of the condition. Vaknin has highlighted the role of the false self in narcissism. The false self replaces the narcissist's true self and is intended to shield him from hurt and narcissistic injury by self-imputing omnipotence. The narcissist pretends that his false self is real and demands that others affirm this confabulation, meanwhile keeping his real imperfect true self under wraps. For Vaknin, the false self is by far more important to the narcissist than his dilapidated, dysfunctional true self; and in contrast to the psychoanalysts
Less Than Zero (song) the plan to switch songs, inspired by a live performance on the BBC's "The Lulu Show" in 1969 in which Jimi Hendrix had scrapped a performance of Hey Joe after a few bars to instead play an impromptu tribute to Cream, who had broken up just days before. "Less Than Zero" appears on the first Stiff Records compilation; "A Bunch of Stiff Records", whilst the B-side, "Radio Sweetheart", appears on their second; "Hits Greatest Stiffs". Less Than Zero (song) "Less Than Zero" is the eighth track on Elvis Costello's debut album "My Aim Is True", and the first Costello single