Meanings
comparative more narcissistical · superlative most narcissistical
- Of, pertaining to or involved in narcissism or narcissistic behaviour; narcissistic.
Most prominent during the phallic phase is the fear of bodily injury or castration. There is great anxiety over the potential loss of a narcissistical and highly invested part of the body.
1989, Harold I. Kaplan, Benjamin J. Sadock, Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry/V, volume 1, page 3782 more examples
Sleeping at the Dobbins's, she dreams or 'remembers' herself dancing barefooted at a charity ball for the poor and the persecuted in the Adolf Hitler Hotel, Washington, scattering her jewels on the floor with narcissistical altruism.
1987, Landfall, volume 41, page 68For, while the boy clings to his pre-Oedipal identification with (to his narcissistical love for) the father - the penis - the girl's identificatory love for her mother turns into hate when she makes the momentous discovery that will also dominate the life of the boy: the absence of the penis.
2001, Brayton Polka, Depth Psychology, Interpretation, and the Bible: An Ontological Essay on Freud, page 85
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