ABSTRACT
The problem of narcissism has become a pervasive theme in psychoanalytic inquiry and a central one in contemporary formulations of psychopathology. Said to closely resemble the borderline patient of the 19708 and also to resemble (though also differing from) the psychoanalytically older and presumably healthier hysteric, obsessional, and schizoid modal diagnoses of other times or cultures, the narcissistic personality arguably has become the modal diagnosis of the 19805 and 19908.
