ABSTRACT
These two terms might be employed to describe tendencies, one ego-centric, the other socio-centric, which may at any moment be seen to inform groups of impulsive drives in the personality. They are equal in amount and opposite in sign. Thus, if the love impulses are narcissistic at any time, then the hate impulses are social-istic, i.e. directed towards the group, and, vice versa: if the hate is directed against an individual as a part of narcissistic tendency, then the group will be loved socialistically. That is to say, if A hates B, as an expression of narcissism, then he will love the society. “I hate B because he is so harmful to the society that I love”, might be an assertion symptomatic of what I would call a state of narcissistic hate of A for B. I maintain that in a narcissistic statement there is always implied a social-istic statement. The two must go together: if one is operating, so is the other.
