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“The Minutes” marks Letts’ return to Broadway since his 2019 play “Linda Vista,” which explored a narcistic, opinionated middle-aged white man trying to come to grips with the modern world.

From Seattle Times • May 18, 2022

Since we can now employ the conception of ego-libido, the narcistic neuroses have become accessible to us.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund

We have, in addition to narcistic identification, an hysterical identification as well, which moreover has been known to us for a much longer time.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund

It appears that an accumulation of narcistic libido cannot be borne beyond a certain point.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund

It is noteworthy that for all the narcistic neuroses, we must assume fixation points of the libido which reach back into far earlier phases of development than in cases of hysteria or compulsion neuroses.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund