Narcissan

English Alternative forms en Narcissian Etymology From en Narcissus an.narcissan Adjective Of or relating to the mythological Narcissus. en New American Mercury 1930 242 Universal exhibitionism—the Narcissan instinct—in its relation to evolution: here is a vein of thought in which I have lately been working. en w:Gerardine Meaney (Un)like Subjects: Women, Theory, Fiction w:Routledge 1993 2012 172 Even though she links the Narcissan element in Plotinus with the ‘mirror of Dionysus’ (Kristeva 1988: 107) Kristeva does not foreground the threat of disintegration through confrontation with the maternal. This threat does, however, surface in Ovid’s integration of the story of Narcissus with that of Pentheus and is discernible in Plotinus’ identification of the mirror of Dionysus with the Narcissan error of ‘image-laden dispersion’ (107). en Christopher Braider Baroque Self-Invention and Historical Truth: Hercules at the Crossroads w:Routledge 2004 2016 978-0-7546-3881-0 What initially recommends the Narcissan metaphor is paranomasia: Alberti is seduced by the pun on ‘flower’ that drives the pseudo-syllogism (or enthymeme) ornamenting the hubristic claims he makes on painting’s behalf. References en eponyms