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[[Narcissistic ]] defenses are [[psychic ]] procedures utilized by the ego, in the [[case ]] where the latter is [[understood ]] as the only (or almost only) [[object ]] of investment by the [[libido]]. Their function is to protect the integrity and the psychic endurance of the ego.Precise indications of specifically narcissistic defenses are not to be found in the works of [[Freud]]. However, the [[concept ]] appeared in relation to a [[number ]] of topics: [[infantile ]] omnipotence, [[idealization ]] of the [[love ]] object, [[paranoid ]] [[projection]], counter investment in the [[external ]] [[world]], the...