narcissistic, a.
(nɑːsɪˈsɪstɪk)
[f. as prec. + -istic.]
Of or pertaining to narcissism; marked by excessive love of self.
| 1916 E. Jones tr. Ferenczi's Contrib. Psycho-Anal. 174, I was just striving to make clear to a patient her excessive ambition, arising from narcissistic fixation. 1922 J. Riviere tr. Freud's Introd. Lect. Psycho-Anal. xxiv. 347 Thus it appeared that auto-erotism was the sexual activity of the narcissistic phase of the direction of the Libido. 1935 S. Spender Destructive Element xv. 267 It was not a narcissistic desire to recover lost charms and innocence. 1964 Economist 23 May 801/2 Students..would be vastly improved if they were a lot less frowsty and narcissistic. 1973 L. Bellak et al. Ego Functions ii. x. 159 Kernberg has discussed ‘Barriers to Being in Love’ from the standpoint of narcissistic personality features. |