narcissism
noun
inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self-love; vanity.
narcistic
-
a word derived from
narcissism.
Example Sentences
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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 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 Sigmund Freud
The narcistic conditions and the psychoses related to them can only be solved by observers who have schooled themselves in analytic study of transference neuroses.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
I promised to explain, with the aid of the factor of transference, why our therapeutic efforts have not met with success in narcistic neuroses.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
Observation shows that persons suffering from narcistic neuroses have no capacity for transference, or only insufficient remains of it.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
