Editorial

Narcissism is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon shaped by early experiences and with a significant impact on a person's relationships and overall well-being. Psychoanalysis invites us to a more comprehensive approach to narcissism that includes both individual and social dimensions and provides a valuable framework for understanding and treating narcissistic disorder, allowing patients to explore unconscious conflicts and develop more adaptive ways of relating to themselves and others. In the articles in this issue, the authors explore in personal research, primary narcissism but also the influence of the environment that favors the development of secondary narcissism, analyzing the link between narcissism and reality testing, that between narcissism and personal idiom, between transgenerational trauma and how it affects narcissism, all of these studies are anchored in the reality of today but also in the mythological universe.

1. Mareike Wolf-Fedida, Fanny Houzé, Eric Sioufi, Benjamin Marcepoil, Irma Merkiled, Jinxiao Chen invite us to a comprehensive approach to narcissism, which takes into account both the individual and the social dimension. In their article Hurt Narcissism and Construction of Identity, they present their research on the dual meaning of narcissism, primary and secondary. Primary narcissism means the primary organization turned towards the self and secondary narcissism is part of the constitution of human identity which is based on the internalization of a bond of dependence on the object. The authors refer in this article to patients who have suffered terrible wounds at the level of primary

narcissism, wounds that have left deep imprints. Identity reconstruction is an ongoing process, influenced by the interaction between the individual and society.

2. Fulvio Mazzacane proposes in his article Echoes of Narcissus the difficult and complex task of establishing a link between the image