He deems himself highly capable to accomplish anything. He affirms that he is the most important member of his group of friends. Every time he does something that he supposes is funny or extraordinary, he awaits a high five. Once he told a “funny” joke, but no one found it funny. He felt offended so much that he kept his hand up until someone returned his high-five. Barney is further known to sleep with a lot of women along with never failing to remind his friends how “awesome” he is and what he did the night before. He informs everyone that he is “Legendary.” He even constructed a playbook with all his plays he has done to women or what he will do to be with a woman. He as well generated a book called the Bro Book, which he lives by. He says he did not execute it, but that the greatest bro in history did. Every time we get a scene from the book Barney is always the main man. He is quite preoccupied with his beauty which induced him to wear a suit every day. Ever since his girlfriend left him years ago for a man in a suit, he realized that he was doing something wrong. He concocted a suit would fix his heartache. He assured a bully of his he would be with twice the women he has been with. That promise was completed at the 200th mark. He was ruthless to sleep with all those women to prove to that kid, he could do it, yet he hasn't seen him since. He got fixated on that one thing his whole life. Whenever he is with a woman he never …show more content…
The start of narcissism comes from a Greek story. In Greek mythology, Narcissus was a young and beautiful proud man. In the story he saw his reflection in the pond and was breath taken by what he saw and there fell in love. He was so in love that he did not leave the water. He died beside the pond because he could not bare to leave his beautiful image. As a result of his death, he became a flower. It wasn't until the early 1900s that narcissism started to emerge in the minds of psychoanalytic's. Many known psychoanalytic's, like Sigmund Freud, have studied narcissism and given their own point of view. Freud believed that a person possessed a natural craving pursing to be uniquely themselves. But then he believes, that after a while narcissism goes down and it is essential to have love and affection replace the empty part of narcissism. Throughout history psychoanalysts have conducted experiments and written papers on narcissism and have left their own theories about it. It wasn't until the 1980s that narcissism officially became known as a disorder by the DSM III. Today in the DSM-V, narcissism is under personality disorders and has a code of 301.81. Since the acknowledgment in the early 1900's there has been many cases and patients being