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NarcissusandNarcissisminEarlyPsychoanalysis…
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theneurosis,whichspringsfromthesuperficiallyovercome,butnot
fullyrepressed,narcissism.
RankalsonotesthatDorianisreportedtohavea“aufallendeÄhnlichkeit”
(“strikingresemblance”)withhismother.Fromthisheconcludesthatnotonly
canthenarcissistturnhisloveforhimselfintohomosexualobject-love,buthe
canalsoreviveanoldloveforsomeoneelse)sbody(inthiscasethemother)
throughhisloveforhisownbody.ForthisideahefindsconfirmationinPausa-
nias)sversionoftheNarcissusstory,whereNarcissusloveshisdeadsisterthrough
hisownimageinthewater.
Fromanintertextualpointofview,IthinkitisreasonabletoarguethatRank)s
textestablishesananagrammaticrelationbetweenthegeneraltext,orthesystem
reference,oftheNarcissusthemeandthefieldofnarcissisticphenomena.Te
Narcissustheme,whichisconstitutedbyasystemofinterrelatedtexts,contains
acertainnumberofsignifyingelements.Tesearenowfoundtobedispersed
inthetextualspheredescribingthefieldofpsychologicalobservationsrelatedto
narcissism.Teyaretherebyrestructuredandsubjectedtothesignifyingcapac-
ityofpsychoanalyticdiscourse,thatistheirsemanticpotentialislimitedtothat
whichcanbecoveredbythelanguageofpsychoanalysis.Teimplicationofthe
textisthatsignificantelementsintheNarcissustraditionare,intheirpsycho-
logicalaspects,likelytobeexplainedbythetheoryofnarcissism.Teborder
zonebetweentheNarcissusthemeandnarcissisticphenomenaistherebywid-
ened.Butbythesametoken,theirregularityinthesystemisalsoincreased.Te
conceptthatRankusescannotbearguedtoexplainthephenomenawhichhe
therebyintroducesintothesystemofnarcissisticpsychology.Fromthecultural
semioticpointofview,thereisanincreaseinsemioticactivityattheperiphery,
whichisinsumcientlystructuredbythemodelingsystemsatthecentreofthe
semiosphere.
Finally,Freud)sarticle“ZurEinführungdesNarzißmus”(1914)-together
withthecomplementaryremarksmadeinthemetapsychologicalpapersof1915-
representstheconclusivetriumphoftheconceptofnarcissismovertheNarcissus
theme.Narcissismisnowsystematicallyintegratedatthecentreofpsychoana-
lytictheoryandtheconceptcompletelydisposesofitsdependencyonthetheme.
Narcissismherebecomesacentralcomponentinthelanguagesofmetapsychol-
ogyandparticipatesinregulatingtherelationsbetweenthedynamic,economic
andtopographicpointsofview,andthereisnomentionoforallusiontoNarcis-
sus.Furthermore,narcissismprovidesasystematicregulationofthepsychologi-
calphenomenathathavebeenassociatedwithNarcissus.
Withhiswell-knownamoebasimile,Freudhereestablishestheideaoflibido
asaplasticenergy,whichcanbetransformedbetweennarcissisticlibidoand
objectlibido: