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The term "[[narcissism]]" first appears in [[Freud]]'s [[Works of Sigmund Freud|work]] in 1910, but it is not until his work "[[Freud|On Narcissism: An Introduction]]"<ref>Freud 1914c</ref> that the concept begins to play a central role in [[psychoanalytic theory]].

From this point on, [[Freud]] defines [[narcissism]] as the investment of [[libido]] in the [[ego]], and opposes it to [[object]]-[[love]], in which [[libido]] is invested in [[object]]s.

[[Lacan]] attributes great importance to this phase in [[Freud]]'s work, since it clearly inscribes the [[ego]] as an [[object]] of the [[libido|libidinal economy]], and links the birth of the [[ego]] to the [[narcissism|narcissistic stage]] of [[development]].