Narcissan

English

Alternative forms

• Narcissian

Etymology

From Narcissus +‎ -an.

Adjective

Narcissan (comparative more Narcissan, superlative most Narcissan)

1. Of or relating to the mythological Narcissus.
   • 1930, New American Mercury, page 242:

     Universal exhibitionism—the Narcissan instinct—in its relation to evolution: here is a vein of thought in which I have lately been working.

   • 1993, Gerardine Meaney, (Un)like Subjects: Women, Theory, Fiction, Routledge, published 2012, page 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).

   • 2004, Christopher Braider, Baroque Self-Invention and Historical Truth: Hercules at the Crossroads, Routledge, published 2016, →ISBN:

     What initially recommends the Narcissan metaphor is paranomasia:^[sic] 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.