ABSTRACT

The emptiness and lack of personality of their emotional life extends to their character formation. Narcissistic fantasies were replaced by real experience in which, however, she could take part only by identification with others. There were two parallel trends in her childhood. One was the real- unreal relationship with her parents that the people have called a myth, and the other was the relationship with her continually changing educators. Disjointed inner demands are undoubtedly generally present in the young child at an early stage. Perhaps the only difference is that the restorative process of schizophrenia denies the real world and creates an illusory structure in its place. Freud once privately expressed the view that the people could assume narcissistic individuals who lived in complete psychical independence of their environment to be completely happy. The effect of the analytic process on them is practically nil.