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The term "[[narcissism]]" ([[Fr]]. ''[[narcissisme]]'') first appears in [[Freud]]'s [[Works of Sigmund Freud|work]] in 1910, but it is not until his work "[[Freud|On narcissism: an introduction]]"<ref>Freud 1914c</ref> that the concept begins to play a central role in [[psychoanalytic theory]].
The concept of '[[narcissism]]' begins to play a central role in [[psychoanalytic theory]].
[[Narcissism]] has both an erotic character and an [[aggressive]] character.
It is erotic, as the myth of [[Narcissus ]] shows, since the [[subject]] is strongly attracted to the [[gestalt]] that is his image.
It is [[aggressive]], since the wholeness of the [[specular image]] contrasts with the uncoordinated disunity of the [[subject]]'s real [[body]], and thus seems to threaten the [[subject]] with disintegration.
In "[[Lacan|Remarks on psychic causality]],"<ref>Lacan. 1946</ref>[[Lacan]] coins the term "[[narcissism|Narcissistic suicidal aggression]]" (''[[narcissism|aggression suicidaire narcissique]]'') to express the fact that the erotic-aggressive character of the [[narcissistic]] infautation with the [[specular image]] can lead the [[subject]] to self-destruction (as the myth of [[Narcissus]] also illustrates.<ref>{{Ec}} p.187; {{Ec}} p.174</ref>
The [[narcissistic]] relation constitutes the [[imaginary]] dimension of human relationships.<ref>{{S3}} p.92</ref>
