Kohut came to distinguish four key components in the development of the self: the nuclear, virtual, cohesive and grandiose selves.

Moreover, although both focus on the concept of the "grandiose self" in their narcissistic personality theorizing, they provide different explanations for it.

Here, the grandiose self is nothing more than an archaic form that prospectively ought to become the normal self.

These are rooted in traumatic injuries to the grandiose self.

Kohut saw the grandiose self as a normal part of the developmental process.

Behind such perfectionism, self psychology would see earlier traumatic injuries to the grandiose self.

Kohut, in Strozier's rendering, argues that children tend to begin life with fantasies about a grandiose self and ideal parents.

Of course he would be subdued; Garth would not want these people to glimpse anything that might remind them of his earlier grandiose self.

He maintained that a child will tend to fantasize about having a grandiose self and ideal parents.

After all the terrorism and war, Gallifrey is just a shadow of its former, grandiose self.