A psychodynamic, philosophical, and ontological hypothesis concerning narcissism, desire, expectation, perfectionism, supremacy, and the nature of Being. Every expectation that another person be anything other than what they actually are may be understood as an expression of narcissistic functioning; not necessarily in its pathological or overtly grandiose manifestations, but as an intrinsic, self-referential movement of ego-consciousness. Said another way, what if narcissism