ABSTRACT
In the setting of history, thwarted narcissistic aspirations, hurts to one's pride, injuries to one's prestige needs, interferences with conscious, preconscious, or unconscious fantasies concerning one's greatness, power, and specialness, or concerning the greatness, power, and specialness of the group that one identifies with are important motivations for group behavior. If humans are to survive in a way that has any similarity to what people have prized up till as being the essence of human life, the narcissistic motivations, psychoanalyst believe, must come into the ascendancy. Classical analysis would have answered by pointing out that the absence of a visible genital in the little girl is of crucial importance in psychic development and leads to a severe wound in self-esteem that later self-confidence remains low and idealizability therefore lessened. Psychoanalyst discuss psychic development, and he speak instead of the "empathic responsive matrix" which the child needs for psychological survival and growth.
