Narcissistic personality disorders are differentiated from oedipal fixations. Three clinical cases of narcissistic disorders are presented. The author states he has never seen a patient who illustrates dominant narcissistic fixations with important object transference pathology. In the cases described, the typical picture is that seen in Kohut's The Analysis of the Self, with the development of mirror transference and of temporary fragmentations occurring in the patients after leaving the analyst. Basically, each exhibited a similar pathology, namely, a poorly cathected and noncohesive development of the self, resulting in the ever-present potential for temporary fragmentation. In conclusion Forman lists nineteen criteria for the diagnosis of oedipal character neuroses.