self-deficient

comparative more self-deficient · superlative most self-deficient

1. Deficient in itself; not whole or complete; lacking.

   It was a self-deficient people with whom the self-deficient Hitler achieved that peculiar empathy: a resonance of injured self on injured self. Both shamed, they became united.

   1991, Harold Barrett, Rhetoric and Civility: Human Development, Narcissism, and the Good Audience

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   Importantly, however, researchers and philosophers contend that the ego that is created is not who an individual actually is since the ego erroneously believes that the true nature of oneself is self-deficient.

   2014, Leroy Robinson, Jr., Proceedings of the 2009 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference