“Finally a third and beautiful narcissism appears: alongside Narcissus who looks in love at his mirrored image (sadly, says the legend, as he must if he is under a neurotic spell), and alongside the second narcissism that does not fit the name, because here Narcissus is not mirrored but becomes—gives birth to himself and in the symbolic language of psychoanalysis does indeed come “from the water” if only as a mere image, stands Narcissus, the discoverer of himself, the self-knower.”
Lou Salome
PsikoSerum 