Narcis bez narcizma

Abstract

Narcissus without Narcissism - The myth of Narcissus is commonly believed to be about the punishment the title character received for being in love with himself. Taking into consideration the interpretations of the myth of Narcissus in Ovid, Freud, Lacan, Dalí, Blanchot, Girard, Kofman, and Nancy, the author shows that this interpretation is wrong, even if it does tell us something about the origins of the myth. The myth of Narcissus is not about self-obsession, because Narcissus, unlike today’s narcissists, does not recognize himself in the mirror and does not know that he is looking at himself. He sees this face that he finds beautiful, this face of such beauty that he passionately desires it and will ultimately lose himself in it. What he sees is a stranger.

Keywords

• narcissus
• narcissism
• psychoanalysis
• mirror stage
• salvador dalí
• ovidius