ABSTRACT
Kit Bollas, in his book Forces of Destiny, divides narcissism into positive and negative, but what he characterizes as anti-narcissism is the hidden part of narcissism: The anti-narcissist opposes his destiny. In this chapter, the author provides a distinction between motor activity and emotional activity, or what is quite frequently referred to as action in phantasy. The autonomous source is the degree to which there has been an option for the lifegiver, and the discordant source is when the lifegiver has been repudiated. Action can, therefore, have an autonomous source or a discordant source, although the source is neither purely autonomous nor purely discordant. Action coming from an autonomous source is creative in the way that Graham Greene described Herbert Read as being creative. The chapter shows that actions take place in the psyche below the threshold of awareness. The discordant source disconnects the motor activity from its source.
