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
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
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 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
Through a process which we designate as "narcistic identification" the object is built up within the ego itself, is, so to say, projected upon the ego.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
