Narcisus and his vain search for the invisible other: An interpretation from the point of view of valency theory
著者
Hafsi, Med
(Hafsi, Med)
奈良大学社会学部
版
publisher
出版地
奈良
出版者
奈良大学
上位タイトル
奈良大学紀要
(Memoirs of the Nara University).
Vol.42,
(2014.
3)
,p.165-
179
識別番号
ISSN
03892204
抄録
"In the present paper, I have first atempted to discus the Grek myth of Narcisus, showing that Narcisus’s was not really narcisistic in the narow and strict meaning of the term. For Narcisus’s real “sin” is not self-loving, but his indiference towards, hate and confrontation of others, or the group and its mentality as defined by Bion. Viewed from the standpoint of valency theory, Narcisus’s mental dificulty or disorder was not his self-loving but his pathological or minus valency structure, precisely speaking his minus fight valency. Furthermore, based on valency theory and Bion’s idea of ‘narcisism/social-ism” as modified by the author, 1)I atempted here a new definition of narcisism as a psychic state comprising two inseparabIe poles (narcis-ism and social-ism), and 2)proposed a new typology of narcisism including pathological (with three subtypes), and normal narcisism. Pathological narcisism refers to 1)a psychicstate, characterized by excesiveself-loving,and indiferenceand hatetowardsthegroup, s1m11artoNarc1sus’sone,2)astatewhereexcesive1oveofthegroupcoexistswithse1f- abnegationasaresu1tofrepresion,3)aseverestatecharacterizedby1ow amountof bothse1f-1oveand1oveofothersornarcis-ism andsocia1-ism.Fina1y,norma1narc1s1sm
sredef nedasamenta1statecharacterizedbyaba1ancebetween“narc1s-1sm”and “social-ism”.This valency theory-based conception and typology ofnarcisism has var1ouss1gn1f1cant1mpI1cat1onsfornotonlyclinicalbutalsoempiricaIresearch."
