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The case of an impostor who has been in analysis for over four years is reported, with special emphasis on his narcissism, disturbed object relations, and superego development.
The patient's need to appear in grandiose roles is an attempt to overcome narcissistic problems of low self-esteem, the sources of which are painful knowledge of his own ego defects, intense castration anxiety, and concern about feminine identifications and homosexual fantasies.