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In the movie ‘Mustafa Hakkında Herşey’, written and directed by Çağan Irmak, the images in the first scenes make us think that there is a family life resembling a fairy-tale but at the same time those images make us feel its falsehood. Mustafa is a confident and successful businessman, and unknown truths come out after his wife dies in a car accident. He finds out that his wife had been having an affair with Fikret. Up until that moment Mustafa thinks he is superior to everyone and belittles them, afterwards jealousy, envy and aggression emerge from beneath his narcissism.
Winnicott has defined the idea of “There was nothing before me, there will be nothing after me” as a ‘narcissistic illusion’. The primary function of a narcissistic state is to hide the individual's feelings of jealousy and envy, sparing that person from those feelings. We come face to face with this in psychoanalytical practice; the analyst has the task to make it visible to the patient, showing it to them in a way that purges it out of its destructive side, while making it clear that their jealousy and envy does not bother, nor is it destructive.