62 definitions
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On Narcissism: An Introduction
52 concepts · 62 definitions
- apocalypse1
- beauty1
- being in love3
- charm1
- child2
- conscience2
- creation1
- criminal1
- delusion1
- delusion of being watched1
- delusions of grandeur1
- displeasure1
- ego2
- ego-ideal2
- erotogenicity1
- first love1
- functional phenomenon1
- guilt1
- handicap1
- happiness1
- hermit1
- hypochondria1
- ideal1
- idealist1
- idealization2
- illness1
- individual1
- inferiority1
- introversion1
- libido1
- love2
- loving1
- magic1
- mind1
- narcissism3
- pain1
- paranoia1
- parental love1
- perversion1
- philosophy1
- repression1
- requited love1
- self-love1
- self-regard1
- sexual object1
- sexuality1
- sleep1
- sublimation1
- symptom1
- time1
- transference1
- ugliness1
Being in love (n.) is the highest phase of object-libido: the subject seems to give up his own personality in favour of the beloved — the opposite pole from the paranoiac's end of the world.
Being in love (n.) is an overflow of ego-libido onto the object; it can remove repressions, reinstate perversions, and exalt the beloved into a sexual ideal.
Being in love (n.) is a state suggestive of neurotic compulsion: the ego impoverishes itself of love in favour of the beloved, onto whom it has transferred its own childhood narcissism.
Narcissism (n.) crowns His Majesty the Baby: the child for whom illness, death and renunciation shall not exist, the laws of nature and society abrogated — as we once fancied ourselves.
Narcissism (n.) has a great attraction, in another person, for those who have given up part of their own in search of love.
Narcissism (n.) is not a perversion but the libidinal complement to the egoism of self-preservation — a measure of it belongs to every living creature.
Love (n.) is a necessity, not a luxury: a strong egoism protects against illness, but in the end we must love so as not to fall ill.
Love (n.) chooses, on the narcissistic model, what one is, what one was, what one would like to be, or someone who was once part of oneself; on the other model, the woman who feeds and the man who protects.
A Child (n.) is where parents take refuge for the immortality of the ego that reality presses so hard — the boy to be the hero in his father's place, the girl to marry a prince for her mother.
A Child (n.) is the road by which even a narcissistic woman reaches complete object-love: a part of her own body confronting her like an outside object.
Conscience (n.) was at bottom an embodiment of parental criticism, then of society's — the parents' voice, then teachers, then the indefinable host of public opinion.
Conscience (n.) is not something we discover but recognize: an agency that constantly watches the actual ego and measures it by the ideal.
The Ego-ideal (n.) is the substitute for the lost narcissism of childhood, when one was one's own ideal — man will not forgo a satisfaction he once enjoyed.
The Ego-ideal (n.) has a social side: the common ideal of a family, class or nation, binding a man's homosexual libido back into his ego.
The Ego (n.) is not there from the start; it has to be developed — narcissism needs a new psychical action added to auto-erotism.
The Ego (n.) develops by departing from primary narcissism — and that departure sets off a vigorous attempt to get it back.
Idealization (n.) leaves the object unchanged in nature and aggrandizes it only in the subject's mind; sublimation changes the instinct, idealization the object.
Idealization (n.) is the parents' narcissistic stigma: compelled to ascribe every perfection to their child and forget his faults — whence also the denial of children's sexuality.
Charm (n.) lies in narcissism: a child, a cat or a beast of prey draws us by its self-contentment and inaccessibility, a blissful position we envy because we abandoned it.
Pain (n.) withdraws love: so long as he suffers, the sick man ceases to love — "concentrated is his soul in his molar's narrow hole."