Indeed.
The different facets of narcissism
Researchers often distinguish between different types of narcissism (see Figure 1). Most often studied (including in the paper by Cichocka et al. [5]) is grandiose narcissism, regulated by two strategies [17]. First, grandiose narcissists strive to achieve admiration by boosting their egos through a sense of uniqueness, charm, and grandiose fantasizing. This strategy of assertive self-enhancement can also be referred to as agentic extraversion [6,18]. Second, narcissists use rivalry to manage any threats to the self via devaluing others, aggression, and striving for supremacy. This antagonistic self-protection is also known as narcissistic antagonism [6]. Antagonism also feeds into the so-called vulnerable type of narcissism, which—instead of agentic extraversion—is regulated by narcissistic neuroticism, related to negative emotionality and self-consciousness [6,18].1
As you probably know I attribute these to be opposite sides of the same coin, self hate. In one case the process involves aggrandizement of a self that is self despised as a coping mechanism and in the other the coping mechanism is to lower everybody else's self esteem on your own eyes. Free of that the joy of being expresses itself in empathy and the notion that virtue is its own reward. To be loving is a good feeling.