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- Freud's theory of narcissism, developed in the 1910s and 1920s, can be seen as a radical break with the Narcissus tradition in that the myth of Narcissus is turned into a theory about man's psychosexual constitution. This prompts the question of whether, or to what extent, Freud's theory influenced subsequent literary treatments of the theme.
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Freud and the Nature of Narcissism. 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....
Oct 3, 2018 · An exhibition exploring the connection between Sigmund Freud and Salvador Dalí, starting from their one meeting, to which Dalí brought his recently completed painting The Metamorphosis of Narcissus.
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.
On 19 July 1938, at the arrangement of their mutual friend Stefan Zweig, Salvador Dalí, Edward James and Zweig visited Freud at his London home, bringing with them Dalí’s painting Metamorphosis of Narcissus.
What is puzzling in Freud’s paper is that he apparently placed narcissism in the I-libido space, in the relations between I and Ideal. But elsewhere he defines narcissism as not specific to the I libido, defining it as the passive mode of Libido, even of Object-Libido.
Freud's theories of ego formation, narcissism, and melancholia are examined for explanations of this loss. In contrast to Freud, who believed that identification with the lost object facilitates the subject's separation from it, identification is redescribed as a mechanism preserving the (imaginary) union with the object.
Freud sees narcissism in the love of parents for their children, projecting their unfulfilled wishes onto their offspring, while in adult life we can fall in love through an ‘attachment’ path or a ‘narcissistic’ one.
