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- The term was coined in Paul Näcke's presentation of Havelock Ellis's sexological investigations to a German audience, but the theorisation of the concept was mainly the result of Sigmund Freud's investigation of phenomena such as male homosexuality, paranoia, and animism, and culminated in his 1914 article ‘Zur Einführung des Narzißmus’. 3 As opposed to the Oedipus complex, Freud's theory of narcissism was not based on his personal interpretation of the canonical text, but was rather the result...
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The concept of narcissism comes from an ancient Greek myth about Narcissus, a son of a God, who fell in love with his own reflection in the water. Compelled by his love for himself, he spent...
In his work, Freud speculates that narcissism from to distinct sources. In the first place, the person is driven by a need to self-preserve; secondly, the individual is driven by the sex drive, essentially the need to procreate.
Freud is unable to circumscribe his concept of narcissism with his basic concepts of I, Ideal and object, because in his theory there is more than one meaning of narcissism: 1) narcissism as the field of I-libido, a space clearly distinct from Object-libido (this is essentially the meaning accepted by Kohut,(15) for example; 2) narcissism as ...
Mar 23, 2016 · As the first step in a larger project of reevaluation, this article offers a critical review of Freud and Heinz Kohut’s theories of narcissism. Centered on a theoretical reconstruction, it clarifies several significant—and often underspecified—features of each account.
- Kelso Cratsley
- 2016
Freud had been using the term for many years previously. We learn from Ernest Jones (1955, 304) that at a meeting of the Vienna Psycho-Analytical Society on November 10, 1909, Freud had declared that narcissism was a necessary intermediate stage between auto-erotism and object-love.
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Freud postulates a universal "primary narcissism" that is a phase of sexual development in early infancy (described in an earlier work as a necessary intermediate stage between auto-eroticism and object-love, love for others).
ing Freud’s paper with a reading of the Narcissus myth, and using these vivid images, we can help students of psychoanaly-sis extract from Freud’s paper an essence of what he meant by narcissism, and recognize what can be considered an original scene of narcissism—if not the “primal scene,” a second scene of
