Narcissism Research Paper

The word Narcissist came from a Greek myth created over 2000 years ago (Dawkins, 2006). Narcissus was a beautiful young man who rejected everyone who fell in love with him (Dawkins, 2006). One day Narcissus past by a pool of water, he noticed his own reflection in the water and fell tragically in love with it (Dawkins, 2006). He became so in love with himself that he couldn’t stop looking at his reflection and stayed there until he died (Dawkins, 2006). Sigmund Freud was inspired by Greek mythology and it led him to create not only his Oedipus theory of infantile development but also an important paper about narcissism and published it in 1914 (Dawkins, 2006). The paper is called “On Narcissism: An Introduction”. Over the following century