THE CLASSICAL DISTINCTION CONSISTENTLY made between the transference neuroses and the narcissistic neuroses is no longer applicable to clinical psychoanalytic inquiry. To put it briefly: Those in transference can be narcissistic, and those narcissistic can be in transference. The factual distinction between the two is becoming increasingly blurred; its diagnostic value is now mainly of historical interest. In the present discussion, I shall review some salient aspects of the classical metapsychology of narcissism as being fundamentally unpsychoanalyzable, and consider why this view has receded into comparative obsolescence, both diagnostic