Subject to Delusions: Narcissism, Modernism, Gender

From: German Quarterly | Date: October 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Rupprecht, Caroline. Subject to Delusions: Narcissism, Modernism, Gender. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2006.203 pp. $24.95 paperback.

Freud's Narcissus, unlike Ovid's tragic victim of self-love, offers a compelling figure for the pleasures and limits of psychoanalysis. On the one hand, Freud naturalized the choice of oneself as a love-object as a regular part of human development, suggesting a departure from the logic of biological determinism: what if fantasy, rather than anatomy, could become destiny? On the other hand, Freud tended to reverse himself when it came to women, whom ...

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