Poetprose
I think maybe I could try and really simplify what you mean when you said what you did, about the "carnal machine" (perfect words there, by the way)
I think what I understand you to be saying is, " The narcissist tries to punish his own inner child." I agreed with your statement too, because N's often tend to bully others, in order to find relief from having been bullied, ignored, over-glamorized as an "object" when they were children, so it makes sense, also, that they would become their own bullying parent as well.
I know that at one time, I was, in essence, "turned into" the inner child of a self-absorbed type of an adult, and then effectively "punished" by being ignored, made fun of and mistreated. That's one of the things they often do...they see you as them when they were children, and they then can be the "punishing adult"