Covert Abuse: Destabilization

When I was first starting to figure out this narcissism thing, I wrote a stream of consciousness story about a father who replaced his son with a dog, without seeming to be able to tell the difference. In fact he killed his son, as a Christian sacrifice, through abandoning him to a dangerous situation and undermining the son's ability to form real relationships. Then he visits the death spot, where the son has died at the hands of others (but in reality as a result of what the father both did and didn't do). He takes notes about the situation, and proclaims it emotionally satisfying. Then he gets a dog and begins calling it by his son's name and proclaiming the virtues of the dog in the same way as he had proclaimed the son's virtues whilst he was alive.