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The Temporal Foundation of the Self and the Other: A Phenomenological Reading of Narcissism

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Rethinking the manner in which psychoanalysis articulates the self’s relation to the other, this paper returns to the primordial stage of narcissism. The paper traces the consequences of the Freudian and Lacanian notions of narcissism and offers a new, alternative picture of the narcissistic stage by suggesting, in light of Heidegger and Loewald, that temporality must be recognized as a constitutive dimension of the self’s openness to the Other.

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  1. These terms, self’s-other and other’s-self, serve to capture the unique intricacies of the encounter between self and other in light of Heidegger’s ontological insight and the structure of temporality in particular; together, they constitute the existential structure of the self’s being-in-time.

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Pearl, J. The Temporal Foundation of the Self and the Other: A Phenomenological Reading of Narcissism. Pastoral Psychol 62, 533–544 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11089-012-0474-8

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