Friday, July 3, 2015

Kristeva on Narcissus


Narcissus is not located in the objectal or sexual dimension. He does not love youths of either sex, he loves neither men nor women. He Loves, he loves Himself–active and passive, subject and object. The object of Narcissus is psychic space; it is representation itself, fantasy. But he does not know it, and he dies. If he knew it he would be an intellectual, a creator of speculative fiction, an artist, writer, psychologist, psychoanalyst.” – Kristeva, Tales of Love (p. 116)

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