WHAT’S THE REALITY BEHIND NARSCISSUS????

WHAT’S THE REALITY BEHIND NARSCISSUS????

Narcissus was a youth that knelt daily beside a lake to contemplate his own beauty. He was so fascinated by himself that ,one morning , he felt into the lake and drowned .At the spot where he fell, flower was born , which was called the Narcissus. It is considered as a Greek myth.

The reality suggests that there is not such kind of  myth but it’s a kind of personality disorder known as narcissistic personality disorder (NPD);Said by Kendra cherry.

 Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a pervasive disorder characterized by symptoms that include grandiosity, an exaggerated sense of self-importance and a lack of empathy for others. Like other types of personality disorders, narcissistic personality disorder involve a longer term pattern of behaviors and thoughts that cause problems in multiple life areas including work, family and friendships.

It is estimated that one percent of US adults are suffering from this disease named as     narcissistic personality disorder (NDP) .Moreover, many romantic partners, parents, children, family members, co-workers and friends are thought to be directly affected by this disorder as well.

While the concept of narcissism dates back thousands of years, narcissistic personality disorder only became a recognized illness within the last 50 years. In order to better understand how psychologists and researchers view NPD, it is essential to take a closer look at how this personality disorder came to be.

According to the Greek myth, Narcissus was a handsome and arrogant  young man. While seeing his  ownreflection on the water for the first time, he became so attracted  that he could not stop gazing at his own image. He remained at the water's edge  and fallen in love with his own image until he eventually wasted to death. This is basically a myth that is quite famous in Greece.

During the early 1900s, the topic of narcissism started to attract interest in the growing school of thought known as psychoanalysis. Austrian psychoanalyst Otto Rank gave his views regarding narcissism, in 1911 , in which he connected it to self-admiration and vanity.

In 1914  Freud gave  theory of personality referring to narcissism, people are born without a basic sense of self or ego, they learn it only through the experiences that occur during infancy and early childhood . As children interact with the outside world, they begin to learn social norms and cultural expectations leading to the development of an ego idea, or a perfect image of oneself that the ego strives to attain.

Reality behind the Narcissus was exposed in 1968,  when HeinzKohut first introduced the term "narcissistic personality disorder" and gave theory of self-psychology, which suggested that narcissism allows people to suppress feelings of low self-esteem and develop a sense of self.