The Mirror Stage Essay on Narcissism

There is a sense in which narcissism that as Freud describes it has to do with these identifications with Lacan. With narcissists, we can finally, in looking in the late kind of see a full object, a global person, if you will. And that can coalesce as the source of the affections and the investments. It's almost more libidinal where the body has a semi-unity as that which can be invested rather than any partial zone.