Freud used myths because, like dreams and poetry, they allude to thoughts and feelings all people recognize as having had themselves. Bruno reviews several versions of the Narcissus myth which, like different accounts of a dream, disguise their latent content in their distortions. Narcissus was conceived when his mother Liriope was violated by Cephissus, who abandoned her. The child grew up as a "narcissistic" support to a lonely mother who was unable to adequately allow the intense dependency of the first stages of life. Teiresias, whom the mother consulted, alluded to