Dehumanization: A Narcissist’s Ultimate Manipulation Tool

To the forces trying to crush your soul, be an impenetrable wall.

Unlike most people, narcissists don’t think on the lines of reason. The more you try to establish a common ground with them, the more they tend to disagree. Infact, the way they treat others is also pretty harsh and can never be justified by ethics and morals.

Narcissists like gaining total control over someone they are interacting with. They don’t like to be criticized or proven wrong. To safeguard their superiority complex, they devise the six most powerful tools with which they are able to subjugate others and maneuver the level of control to their own content.

The main ingredient used here is the tyrannical act of dehumanization.

Dehumanization is the process employed by a narcissist to gain absolute control over people by crushing their free will and turning them into machines that serve as a mere conduit for carrying out their sadistic desires.

Let us break down and analyze the individual steps taken by a narcissist to execute their blasphemous act of dehumanization.

6 Ways A Narcissist Uses Dehumanization as a Technique To Mistreat and Manipulate His Victims

1. They Treat You Like Objects, Not Human Beings.

Narcissists have absolutely no regard for others and the way society operates. They treat people like things, not humans. Through their egotistic lens, the world appears to be a factory, where commodities are being manufactured for narcissists to purchase and make use of them.

They don’t pay any attention to the human traits people have. They are blind and deaf to any form of human emotion and refuse to acknowledge them as fundamental elements of a healthy lifestyle. Whenever you try to interact with a narcissist, you’ll find they use you, as if they’re using an object. They want to strip off every sign of positive emotion in you and program your soul to become a machine serving their interests.

This is how they go about turning living beings into commodities and eventually throw you away when you stop living up to their expectations.

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2. Forceful Invalidation Of Arguments

Narcissists hate it when someone tries to counter their way of thinking. They function on a sort of god complex which makes them believe that the world as perceived through their lens is absolute. They think whatever they do is totally justified and is unquestionable. You cannot question their worldview, let alone change it.

So, to make sure you’re proven wrong, narcissists will try every possible way to invalidate your argument. And the funny thing is, their reasoning is not based on empirical evidence. They’re mere prejudices, not logic. Not only will they make sure that you’re proven wrong, but also that you feel guilty, miserable, and doubtful of yourself.

Narcissists gain a sort of sadistic pleasure in firing criticism, discouragement, and emotional profanities. They like seeing you suffer from post-argument guilt and low self-esteem as if you’ve misguided an entire civilization and led them to ruin by your reasoning. This very act of invalidation is an effective tool narcissists use to curb all arguments.

3. Exercising Absolute Control Over Emotions

As mentioned earlier, narcissists love exercising control over others, it’s their favorite tool of dehumanization. The level of control is such that people are left with no choice but to run away from the severe emotional trauma that results from this malevolent act. When interacting with someone, narcissists make sure the emotions are channeled according to their sadistic desires.

They will make desperate attempts, and you can see that in their actions while interacting, to conjure up all possible negative vibes and direct them to you so that you end up feeling uneasy. They would give you instructions to follow, set principles to abide by, and determine specific timings for your emotions. They become aggressive and violent whenever you show signs of protest.

It is a sort of emotional slavery you can say. The only difference from the physical counterpart is that, here, you don’t even get paid. Infact, you have to compromise on your emotional freedom in order to satisfy their egotistic hunger.

Read: How Narcissists Gain Control Of Their Victim

4. Breaching Personal Boundaries

As if emotional control wasn’t enough, narcissists come up with yet another means of dehumanization. They’ll barge into your personal space and snatch away your peace. They have this habit of poking their arrogant nose into everything they seem worthy of laying waste to. If a person is having a good time alone, and if a narcissist happens to get a sight of it, they’ll break into their personal space and try to establish their toxic perceptions there as well.

They have absolutely no regard for personal space, individual freedom, and privacy. They think they’re allowed to probe anywhere at any given moment, and that people are answerable to them regarding whatever they’re up to in their times of peace and solitude. Breaching individual freedom is one of the most extreme forms of emotional fascism employed by narcissists to perpetuate their actions.

5. Reverse Emotional Osmosis

There are instances, where a narcissist will try to showcase fake emotions. Sometimes they like hiding their malicious intent behind facades of affection. You’ll see a 180-degree turn in their behaviors. All of a sudden, they’ll start caring for you. They’ll try to please you from every angle and make sure you acknowledge the change in them. But don’t be fooled.

They’re just trying to create reverse osmosis of your emotions. It is characteristic of a narcissist to facilitate the back and forth oscillation of human emotions. The moment they see you’ve become comfortable with their changed attitude, they’ll switch back to their original form. This will shatter you from the core, resulting in an immense psychological trauma.

Repeated oscillation can drive people insane to the point of no return. Narcissists love seeing this process in full swing, as that generates a feeling of total control over one’s emotions.

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6. Passive Violence

Narcissists are way too clever when carrying out their profane acts. As stated earlier, they like people suffering from guilt and regret. They make use of this emotional state as an opportunity to introduce yet another means of crushing humanity. This is the infamous method of passive violence. Here, the narcissist switches their position from being the dictator to being the victim. They employ this technique so as to make sure that the sufferer doubts their instinct and the sense of conscience.

Suppose you’re engaged in a casual conversation with a narcissist and suddenly you find them bursting into tears or blaming you for causing emotional distress. For you, it would appear as if they’re trying to create a drama. But there’s a hidden purpose. They want you to feel guilty about the way you speak and act. They want to make you regret every word that comes out of your mouth.

They want to show you how your actions cause mental trauma to them. In this way, you begin to doubt yourself and always seek an apology from the narcissist for being who you are. No matter how kind and generous you are in front of them, a narcissist will always make sure that you hold yourself accountable for any false emotional turbulence they’re trying to showcase.

Conclusion

So you see how narcissists make use of intricate yet subtle ways of carrying out dehumanization. They keep pursuing it till your free will is crushed and you turn into their puppets. Be careful whenever you notice signs that point to any of the above-mentioned events. At least you’ll be in a position to protect yourself from severe emotional manipulations.