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Narcisus: polymorphism of versions and its psychoanalitical interpretations

In this paper are presented different versions of the myth of Narcisus, everyone of which with variations in details, what leads us to different possibilities of psychoanalytic interpretations. This polymorphism in the various forms of reports and of its multiple comprehensions seems to reflect the indifferentiation of the initial stages of mind development and the complexity its study offers to. The question remains overt and so we wish it does, in order to make progressing the study of this so basic and controversial concept in the psychoanalytic theory.

mythology; versions of Narcisus myth; narcissism; myth and psychoanalysis


Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas Editora Splendet, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, Campus I, Rua Prof. Dr. Euryclides de Jesus Zerbini, 1516, Pq. Rural Fazenda Santa Cândida, Telefone: (55 19) 3343-7223. - Campinas - SP - Brazil
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