title: [Freud's narcissism concept].
abstract: The conception of narcissism according to Freud involves a number of different issues and hypotheses. Historically, the numerous contradictions and obscurities in the various psychoanalytical theories of narcissism were clear from the beginning. In this study it was attempted to define four central concepts and critically revise their clinical and theoretical relevance. Following a historical survey on the development of the term by Freud, the problems of defining narcissism by means of the theory of drive and libido are described. The corresponding hypothesis concerning developmental psychology will then be examined with regard to the results of recent infant research. Then the first (and for Freud most important) narcissism concept is represented, narcissism as a mode of object relation and a type of object choice. In conclusion, the new theories, which emphasize narcissism in terms of sense of one's self and self-esteem will be dealt with. Thus this study contributes to the differentiation of the various concepts in the clinical theory of narcissism, especially concerning the unravelling of the object relation- and self-theories from energetic-economical models and developmental speculation of primary narcissism.
authors.affiliation: Institut für psychogene Erkrankungen der AOK Berlin.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Palmowski
mesh_terms: D005619:Freudian Theory; D006801:Humans; D009289:Narcissism; D010553:Personality Development; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D012649:Self Concept
vernacular_title: Uber Narzissmuskonzepte bei S. Freud.