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narcissism Chiefly Psychol.|nɑːˈsɪsɪz(ə)m|
[f. the name of Narcissus, a beautiful youth who fell in love with his own reflection in a fountain (Ovid Metam. iii. 370; subsequently referred to by Havelock Ellis in Alienist & Neurologist (1898) XIX. ii. 280; the term Narcissismus was used by Näcke in Die sexuellen Perversitäten (1899)): see -ism.]
Self-love and admiration that find emotional satisfaction in self-contemplation; occas. (erron.) ˈnarcism.
1822Coleridge Let. 15 Jan. (1971) V. 196 Of course, I am glad to be able to correct my fears as far as public Balls, Concerts, and Time-murder in Narcissism. 1905H. Ellis Stud. Psychol. Sex IV. iii. 187, I have referred to the developed forms of this kind of self-contemplation..and in this connection have alluded to the fable of Narcissus, whence Näcke has since devised the term Narcissism for this group of phenomena. 1922J. Riviere tr. Freud's Introd. Lect. Psycho-Anal. xxiv. 347 It is probable that this narcissism is the universal original condition, out of which object-love develops later without thereby necessarily effecting a disappearance of the narcissism. 1938H. A. Murray Explorations in Personality iii. 180 Narcism (or Egophilia) is technical for self-love. 1946[see introjection 3 a]. 1955H. Marcuse Eros & Civilization (1969) viii. 169 The striking paradox that narcissism, normally understood as egotistic withdrawal from reality, here is connected with oneness with the universe, reveals the new depth of the conception. 1969P. Loewenberg in B. B. Wolman Psychoanal. Interpretation of Hist. vi. 182 He [sc. Herzl] regressed to the stage of narcissism in which his only sexual object was his own ego and its fantasies. 1970Hinsie & Campbell Psychiatric Dict. (ed. 4) 487/2 Narcism, a shortened (and incorrect) form of narcissism. |