Moral narcissism

Narcissism, to which so many theoretical works have ben devoted during these last few years in France, has been the object of very few clinical studies. An earlier work (1963) on the phallic-narcissistic position led me to define more accurately a state observed in the clinic and first described by Reich. I should now like to give a more solid contour to another clinical impression, to verify its validity in individual experience and, if possible, to attribute a structure to it. We shall now take up the matter of moral narcissism.