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The term "[[narcissism]]" ([[Fr]]. ''[[{{Top}}narcissisme]]'') 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]].{{Bottom}}

==Sigmund Freud=====Development of the Term===The concept of '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>{{F}} "[[Works of Sigmund Freud|On Narcissism: An Introduction]]," 1914c. [[SE]] XIV, 69.</ref> that the [[concept]] begins to play a central [[role ]] in [[psychoanalytic theory]].

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

===Narcissistic Stage of Development===[[LacanNarcissism]] attributes great importance to this phase in is different from the prior [[stage]] of [[Freudautoeroticism]]'s work, since it clearly inscribes (in which the [[ego]] as an does not [[objectexist]] of the as a [[libido|libidinal economyunity]]), and links the birth of the only comes [[about]] when "a new [[egopsychical]] to the [[narcissism|narcissistic stageaction]] of " gives birth to the [[developmentego]].

[[Narcissism]] is different from the prior stage ==Jacques Lacan=====Myth of [[autoeroticism]] (in which the [[ego]] does not exist as a unity), and only comes about when "a new psychical action" gives birth ot the [[ego]]. ---Narcissus===[[Lacan]] develops [[Freud]]'s concept by linking it more explicitly with its namesake, the [[myth ]] of [[Narcissus]].

===Erotic-Aggressive Character of Narcissism===[[Narcissism]] has both an [[erotic ]] [[character ]] and an [[aggressive]] character.  It is erotic, as the myth of [[Narcissus]] shows, since the [[subject]] is strongly attracted to the [[gestalt]] that is his [[image]]. It is [[aggressive]], since the [[wholeness]] of the [[specular image]] contrasts with the uncoordinated disunity of the [[subject]]'s [[real]] [[body]], and thus seems to threaten the [[subject]] with [[fragmented body|disintegration]].

It is [[aggressive]], since the wholeness of the [[specular image]] contrasts with the uncoordinated disunity of the [[subject]]'s real [[body]], and thus seems to threaten the [[subject]] with disintegration.===="Narcissistic Suicidal Aggression"====In "[[Lacan|Remarks on psychic causalityPsychic Sausality]],"<ref>{{L}} "[[Work of Jacques Lacan|Propos sur la causalité psychique]]", in {{E}} [1946]. pp. 1946151-93</ref>[[Lacan]] coins the term "[[narcissism|Narcissistic narcissistic suicidal aggression]]" (''[[narcissism|aggression suicidaire narcissique]]'') to express the fact that the [[eroticism|erotic]]-[[aggressive ]] character of the [[narcissistic]] infautation infatuation with the [[specular image]] can lead the [[subject]] to [[self]]-[[destruction ]] (as the myth of [[Narcissus]] also illustrates).<ref>{{Ec}} p.187; {{Ec}} p.174</ref> The [[narcissistic]] relation constitutes the [[imaginary]] dimension of human relationships.<ref>{{S3}} p.92</ref> '[[Narcissism]]' is used by [[Sigmund Freud]] to describe the investment of [[libido]] in the [[ego]]. The [[narcissistic]] [[stage]] of [[development]] inscribes the [[ego]] as an [[object]] of the [[libidinal]] [[economy]]. [[Lacan]] makes [[narcissism]] an even more central aspect of the [[human]] [[psyche]], aligning it with the imaginary [[order]], one of the three major structures of the [[psyche]] (along with the [[Real]] and the [[symbolic]] [[order]]).  [[Lacan]] expands upon [[Freud]]'s concept, linking it more explicitly with its namesake, the [[myth]] of [[Narcissus]]. [[Narcissism]] has both an [[eroticism|erotic]] and an [[aggressivity|aggressive]] character. It is erotic in that the [[subject]] is strongly attracted to the [[gestalt]] that is his [[image]]. [[Narcissism]] is the [[erotic]] attraction to the [[specular image]].Such attraction underlies the primary [[identification]] by which the [[ego]] is formed in the [[mirror stage]]. It is [[aggressivity|aggressive]] in that the '[[wholeness]]' of the [[specular image]], undermined by the uncoordinated dis[[unity]] of the [[subject]]’s [[real]] [[body]], seems to threaten the [[subject]] with disintegration. The [[narcissistic]] relation (with the [[specular image]]) constitutes the [[imaginary dimension]] of human relationships.<ref>{{S3}} p.92</ref>

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