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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

In narcistic neuroses the resistance is insuperable; at best we are permitted to cast a curious glance over the wall to spy out what is taking place on the other side.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund

We owe them all to the exploitation of the conception of ego-libido or narcistic libido, by the aid of which we have extended to narcistic neuroses those observations which were confirmed in the transference neuroses.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund

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

In melancholia as well as in other narcistic conditions a feature of emotional life is strikingly shown which, since the time of Bleuler, we have been accustomed to designate as ambivalence.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund