Key points

Addiction masks deep vulnerabilities through a facade, mimicking societal norms.

Narcissism can arise from childhood wounds, leading to a split private and public self.

Introspection and therapy can reconnect lost self and combat addiction's false security.

In his Poetics , describing the reaction to the tragic hero, the Greek philosopher Aristotle noted, "our pity is excited by misfortunes undeservedly suffered, and our terror by some resemblance between the sufferer and ourselves...a person...involved in misfortune not by deliberate vice or villainy, but by some error or human frailty."

The reference to human frailty represents the psychological complex that can facilitate exploration of the personality hidden in the shadows of addictions. Here is presented a composit

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