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narcissistical en · ADJ

Etymology

From narcissist + -ical.

Meanings

1. Of, pertaining to or involved in narcissism or narcissistic behaviour; narcissistic.
   • For, while the boy clings to his pre-Oedipal identification with (to his narcissistical love for) the father - the penis - the girl's identificatory love for her mother turns into hate when she makes the momentous discovery that will also dominate the life of the boy: the absence of the penis. 2001, Brayton Polka, Depth Psychology, Interpretation, and the Bible: An Ontological Essay on Freud, page 85:
   • Sleeping at the Dobbins's, she dreams or 'remembers' herself dancing barefooted at a charity ball for the poor and the persecuted in the Adolf Hitler Hotel, Washington, scattering her jewels on the floor with narcissistical altruism. 1987, Landfall, volume 41, page 68:
   • Most prominent during the phallic phase is the fear of bodily injury or castration. There is great anxiety over the potential loss of a narcissistical and highly invested part of the body. 1989, Harold I. Kaplan, Benjamin J. Sadock, Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry/V, volume 1, page 378:

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