ABSTRACT
The term ‘narcissism’, along with its adjectival form ‘narcissistic’, evolved from what was originally a specialized term in sexual psychology into a central concept of psychoanalysis, and has since become a common part of popular psychological jargon. As widely understood, a narcissistic person is someone who is vain and enamoured with himself or herself. Symbolic of a narcissistic woman is the queen in the fairy tale Snow White , with her incessant question: ‘Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?’
