Talk:Narcissism
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Ideally, the libido directs its energies to objects ("object-libido"), including eventually one's love-object. The libido can also attach itself to the ego ("ego-libido") to the exclusion of external object-cathexes. This situation leads, according to Freud, to narcissistic behavior and to narcissistic neuroses such as megalomania.