narciss-, narcis- +

A reference to or pertaining to Narcissus.

1. Excessive or neurotic admiration of oneself.
2. An abnormal interest in oneself; especially, in one's own body and sexual characteristics; self-love or self-admiration.
3. Sexual pleasure derived from observing one's own naked body.
4. In psychoanalysis, sexual self interest that is a normal characteristic of the phallic stage of psychosexual development, occurring as the infantile ego acquires a libido.

Narcissism in the adult is abnormal, representing fixation at this phallic stage of development or regression to it.

The term narcissism, as used in psychology, came from German Narzissismus; coined by Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), founder of psychoanalysis.

Someone who shows extreme love and admiration for herself/himself.

1. Relating to or manifesting narcissism; that is, being extremely conceited or egotistical.
2. A reference to vanity and being self-absorbed in oneself.

A disposition characterized by behavior and attitudes that indicate an abnormal love of the self.

A person with this disposition is self-centered and self-absorbed, is extremely unrealistic concerning attributes and goals, vacillates between over idealizing and devaluing others, and, in general, assumes that he or she is entitled to more than is reasonable in relationships with others.

A psychiatric diagnosis characterized by an exaggerated sense of self-importance and uniqueness, an abnormal need for attention and admiration, preoccupation with grandiose fantasies concerning the self, and disturbances in interpersonal relationships, usually involving the exploitation of others and a lack of empathy for anyone else.

1. In Greek mythology, a youth who was punished for repulsing Echo's love by being made to fall in love with his own reflection in a pool.

He died gazing at his own image, and was turned into a flower.

2. In botany, the daffodil, a genus of plants of several species.

They are of the bulbous rooted tribe, perennial in root, but with annual leaves and flower stalks.

Narcissus was the son of the river god Cephissus and the nymph Leiriope.

He supposedly caused the death of the nymph Echo by spurning her love; so, in punishment, Nemesis caused him to waste away, to die for the love of his own image in a pool on Mount Helicon, and changed him into the narcissus flower that sprang up on the spot where he died.

Echo, who was hopelessly in love with Narcissus, pined away until nothing was left of her except her voice haunting Mount Helicon.

Narcissus, representing the early spring-flower, which for a brief time beholds itself mirrored in the water and then fades, is one of the many youths whose premature death is recorded in Greek mythology; the flower itself was regarded as a symbol of such death.

It was the last flower gathered by Persephone before she was carried off by Hades, and was sacred to Demeter and Core (the cult name of Persephone), the great goddesses of the underworld.

In psychoanalysis, the original psychic energy embodied or invested in the ego.