Healthy Narcissism

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Healthy Narcissism

Means "good psychologtical health". The kind that allows you to look at yourself in the mirror and say "I'm good enough", "I'll do". It means healthy self-esteem.

Healthy narcissism is a structural truthfulness of the self, achievement of self and object constancy, synchronization between the self and the superego and a balance between libidinal and aggressive drives (the ability to receive gratification from others and the drive for impulse expression).

Healthy narcissism forms a constant, realistic self-interest and mature goals and principles and an ability to form deep object relations. A feature related to healthy narcissism is the feeling of greatness.

It is the opposite of malignant or pathological narcissism.

In Ronnie Solan's view, healthy narcissism represents the functioning of narcissism as an emotional-immune system for safeguarding the familiarity and the well-being of the individual against invasion by foreign sensations (1998).

From:

http://www.news-medical.net/health/Healthy-Narcissism.aspx