Crossword-Solution: NARCISM 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

TWENTY-SIXTH LECTURE GENERAL THEORY OF THE NEUROSES _The Libido Theory and Narcism_ Repeatedly in the past and more recently we have dealt with the distinction between the ego instincts and the sexual instincts.

When we speak of egoism we mean only the benefits to the individual; if we speak of narcism we also take into account his libidinous satisfaction.

The vulnerable point in the libido development of these patients lies in another phase; the controlling fixation, which, as you will remember, permits the breach resulting in the formation of symptoms, is in another place probably in the stage of primitive narcism, to which dementia praecox returns in its final stage.

Man's intellect is accessible only in so far as he is capable of libidinous occupation with an object, and accordingly we have good ground to recognize and to fear the limit of the patient's capacity for being influenced by even the best analytical technique, namely, the extent of his narcism.

Some South American republic, indeed, any South American republic, would be equally justified in beginning suit for libel against Conrad for the picture of Costaguana in _Nostromo_--could a court be discovered in which such a suit would be justiciable? It is charitable to suppose that the suppressors beheld themselves mirrored in the pages of _Challenge_ because they were victims of a narcism complex.