Narcissistic mortification is "the primitive terror of self dissolution, triggered by the sudden exposure of one's sense of a defective self ... it is death by embarrassment".[1]The concept has been widely employed in ego psychology and also contributed to the roots of self psychology.
When narcissistic mortification is experienced for the first time, it may be defined as a sudden loss of control over external or internal reality, or both. This produces strong emotions of terror while at the same time narcissistic libido (also known as ego-libido) or destrudo is built up.[2] Narcissistic libido or ego-libido is the concentration of libido on the self. Destrudo is the opposite of libido and is the impulse to destroy oneself and everything associated with oneself.
^Mary Libbey. "On Narcissistic Mortification" (PDF). Paper presented at the Shame Symposium, New York, March 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-05-09. Retrieved 2011-01-26.
^Ludwig Eidelberg (1957). "An introduction to the study of the narcissistic mortification". The Psychiatric Quarterly. 31 (1–4): 657–668. doi:10.1007/BF01568757. PMID 13518419. S2CID 26380171. 1957;31(4):657-68.
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