Article
The Dual Orientation of Narcissism
Narzißmus als Doppelrichtung
Copyright Life + 70 years Public domain The last author or translator died in 1937; public domain since 2008.United States Public domain Published in 1921; public domain since 2017.
An essay in four parts that reads narcissism as running in two directions at once: toward the assertion of a bounded self, and back toward an undivided state in which self and world are not yet separate. Narcissism is thus not a stage that is left behind but a lasting accompaniment of all libidinal life, at work in object love, in sublimation, in art and in religious feeling. Published in English as “The Dual Orientation of Narcissism” (Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 1962).
- Published
- 1921
- In
- Imago. Zeitschrift für Anwendung der Psychoanalyse auf die Geisteswissenschaften 7 (4): 361–386
- Language
- German