Mental or Behavioral Dysfunction
narcissism
nar·cis·sism [ nahr-suh-siz-em ]
Etymology:
Greek Narkissos, the son of a mythological river god, who fell in love with his own reflection in the water
The term was adopted in 1921 to denote morbid self-admiration.
The term was adopted in 1921 to denote morbid self-admiration.
Definitions related to narcissism:
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A psychoanalytic term meaning self-love.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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In psychoanalytic theory, divided into primary and secondary types; primary narcissism, the early infantile phase of object relationship development, when the child has not differentiated the self from the outside world and all sources of pleasure are unrealistically recognized as coming from within the self, giving the child a false sense of omnipotence; secondary narcissism, when the libido, once attached to external love objects, is redirected back to the self. See also autistic thinking.Sadock's Comprehensive Glossary of Psychiatry and PsychologyBJ Sadock Titles Press, 2012
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Narcissism, pathological self-absorption, first identified as a mental disorder by the British essayist and physician Havelock Ellis in 1898. Narcissism is characterized by an inflated self-image and addiction to fantasy, by an unusual coolness and composure shaken only when the narcissistic...Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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