Narcissistic Withdrawal

The term narcissistic withdrawal is used to describe the turning back of the individual's libido from the object onto themselves. Narcissistic withdrawal is what occurs in the hallucinatory regression of dreams. This term is also used in pathology, where narcissistic withdrawal is differentiated from regression in the dream-work and must be studied in relation to the ego. Finally, in the context of psychoanalytic treatment, following Donald Winnicott (1954), regression, as a process of change, can be differentiated from withdrawal, a...