Primary Narcissism Research Articles

Some thoughts of schizophrenia and ego development in the light of family investigations.

A new type of investigation may sometimes point out the necessity for a reevaluation of scientific principles which have been accepted earlier. This seems to be true of the findings brought out by the studies of the family environment of the schizophrenic patients and their relation to classical psychoanalytic conceptions of this disorder. To my mind, at least, there has been a certain divergence between these two approaches with which I have had to struggle. After a brief historical review of the problem, I would like to assemble here some ideas—maybe not altogether new—in order to bring them closer together. The basic hypotheses underlying the psychoanalytic theories of schizophrenia were developed by Freud and his pupils in the beginning of this century. Their crucial point concerns the regression of libido to its first phase of primary narcissism, * a period when the libido still was

Primary and secondary narcissism

Primary and secondary narcissism

Primary Narcissism and Primary Love

Primary Narcissism and Primary Love

Some problems connected with Fodor's birth-trauma therapy.

The question is raised in this paper of the pre-natal double, the loss of which cause a postnatal tendency to search for the beloved (Fodor). The different evaluation of this double, male or female, mental or sexual, is related to sex differences. Some dreams are discussed concerning conception itself; and by means of these, primary narcissism and the essence of libido are studied in cases where dreams regarding conception are due to regression caused by pre-natal traumata.