The narcissism indicates the Amour commonly that a person lives for itself. Such a solicitude towards oneself is the base of a good health. However, when the investment of oneself becomes closed and fixed, it generates at the individual a tendency to interpret reality according to its own person. In Psychology, it is current to define the narcissism like a emotional Fixation on oneself.
In Psychoanalysis
- Freud introduced the concept. He speaks about Primary narcissism healthy, to indicate one period of the Enfance where the Bébé would invest his " preferentially; moi" , in addition badly differentiated from that of the object. This primary narcissism is currently seen as a theoretical fiction which gave place to many debates (cf written of [[Jean Laplanche], etc). The “secondary narcissism” would indicate a of libido investment of ego which is done with the detriment of the of libido investment of object. It rests on one me differentiated what distinguishes it from the primary narcissism. In the most serious cases, this investment is done in closed circuit. Freud thought that the Schizophrénie was a method of narcissism.
In psychology
They are a general mode imaginations or imposing behaviors, need to be admired and lack of empathy which appear at the beginning of the adulthood and are present in various contexts.-
the subject (man or woman) has an imposing direction of its own importance. It over-estimates its achievements and its capacities, expects to be admitted like superior without having achieved something in report/ratio.
- is absorbed by imaginations of unlimited success and being able.
- Thinks of being special and single and thinks of being able to be allowed or understood that by high level institutions or people.
- has an excessive need to be admired.
- Pense that all is owe him and expects to profit from a treatment particular and favorable to its waitings.
- Exploits the others and uses others to arrive to its own ends.
- Lack of empathy and is not laid out to recognize the feelings or the needs for the others.
- Desire the others (jealousy) and believes that everyone the desire.
- Shows of attitudes and haughty and arrogant behaviors.
Reference: American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic Manual DSM-IV and statistics of the mental disorders. See also: Antisocial personality disorder.
Mythological origin
This term comes from the Greek myth of Narcisse.In the Greek Mythology, Narcisse was an young man of which éprit the nymph Echo . As Echo could only repeat the last syllable of the words which she heard, she was unable to express her love to him. In the absence of being able to speak to him, to come into contact with him, she wanted to touch it. After it had pushed back its advances, she died. Vis-a-vis this impossible communication, Narcisse believes himself unworthy of love and incompetent Aimer. He wants to find himself by looking at the Reflet of his face in a Mare. By sigh after its Image, without humanizing exchange of alive words, it ends up dying… It was transformed into a Narcisse, the flower which bears its name. It is important not to forget that Narcisse was born from the rape of his mother by the Céphise river, which restores the traumatic effraction and the vacuum symbolic system with the sources of the existential drift of the young man.
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