The word Narcissism comes from a legend of Ovid’s of Narcissus in Metamorphoses in which a young handsome Greek man falls in love with his reflection while gazing into a pool of water. The handsome young men unable to unite with his loved object, dies heart broken. The myth started with the themes of lack of self-knowledge, a deep yearning of a reflection of one’s self, the fear of being possessed and taken over and turning away from objects. The young Greek man unable to meet a replica of him was an egoistic person who strongly portrayed traits of someone who has a case of narcissistic personality disorder. His love for his ego caused him to be delusional in a sense where there was not another person he can come to love and cherish. He portrayed a persona of not being able to compare himself to someone, of being better than anybody. Narcissistic Personality Disorder is a psychological mental disorder in when one loves them more than necessary and has egoism and is self-consumed (Mollon, 1993, p.25). Narcissism is a many-sided phenomenal, in which describes ones positive feeling and thoughts abut themselves. However, the definition of psychological functioning, it is a disorder in …show more content…
If the mother does not respond to the baby’s every whim, ignore it, not pay enough attention, then the baby starts to develop ways to compensate his disappointment. The infant will start developing its own personality and making himself as flawless as possible, becoming the perfect imagined self. Developing traits that well counterweigh the lack of attention by constructing a strong stimulating egoism. Creating this persona will have an evident level of narcissistic personality disorder. The child will grow up with trying to find way to build new way to again attention that he lacked from him mother, making his a self-centered (Halewood & Trible,