ABSTRACT
Jung often said that people unconsciously ‘live a myth’ (see Jung and Jaffé, 1963). It might equally be said that a myth lives within the people themselves, in their unconscious, motivating them to certain forms of experience and behaviour. From the perspective of analytical psychology, then, one might significantly pose the question of whether we can speak of a ‘narcissistic person’ when the myth of Narcissus plays a dominant (though unconscious) role in an individual’s psyche.
