The Importance of Self-Preservative Drives in Narcissism

The basis of narcissism is the very fact that in the beginning, primarily with the infant, the self-preservative drives and the sexual drives have not diverged yet. This is why for Freud, the caretakers, the mother and the father, due to our helplessness as mammals born too early, we can't fend for ourselves,. We're totally helpless. They're the first sexually invested objects. And this is why with this, the management of ego energy, with this bruise to the narcissism, the melancholic experiences, a diminishment in the self-Preservative drives.