NARCISSUS

Narcissus

Narcissus

Introduction

Narcissus was the son of the river god Cephisus Boethius and Liriope, a water nymph. The famous seer Tiresias already had a prediction that he would live many years, as long as you do not see himself. At 16, Narcissus was a handsome young man who aroused the admiration of men and women. His arrogance was such that, perhaps because of it, ignorant of the charms of others. That is when the nymph Echo, imitating what others did, and they loved it (Ulman & Paul, 2006). With its strange feature, Eco tended to stand talking whenever Zeus made love with a nymph. Narcissus rejected the poor Echo, after which the young languished.

His body withered, and her bones turned to stone. Only her voice remained intact. However, it was not the only one who refused and one of the jilted wanted the young to know what I was suffering with unrequited love. The desire fulfilled when Narcissus a summer day resting after hunting on a lake of crystalline surface that projected his own image, which fascinated him. Narciso approached the water and he loved what he saw, so much that he stopped eating and sleeping for the suffering of being unable to get his new love, as he approached the image disappeared.

He died broken-hearted and even in the realm of the dead remained haunted by his own image, which admired in the black waters of the Styx. Even today it retains the term "narcissism", to describe the excessive self-regard

Discussion

In colloquial use means a love of self or vanity based on self-image or ego. The word comes from ancient Greek myth about the young Narcissus of special beauty, who fell in love insatiable in his own image reflected in water.

The contemporary psychological studies that have examined the story of Narcissus indicate that the mother of Narcissus named Liriope and she was raped by Cephisus. The source stops in front of which called Narcissus Liriope, which, according to experts, sheds light on the confusion between the fountain, the water purity and virginity lost his mother. Other factors also link the images lake, calm waters, with dreams of a return to embryonic life and that excessive fusion in the womb.

In 1910, Sigmund Freud the father of psychoanalysis, for the first time pronounced the word “narcissism” as part of his theories on homosexuality as a sexual drive focused on “Self” (Moore & Fine, 2009). Sigmund Freud dissociated two forms of narcissism: one, the primary narcissism of the child (the discovery of his own anatomy or of a face similar to his), the psychoanalyst Lacan speaks elsewhere of “mirror stage” and other secondary narcissism, as a disorder in adults (ibid). The mythological figure of Narcissus is between these two forms of narcissism.

Narcissism dependence requires the subject to the like so that they confirm the identity as a valuable human being and able to be loved. The human need to bond with others is what motivates that consciously or unconsciously in reality or in fantasy, the man holds ...