Echoism : the silenced response to narcissism
Savery, Donna Christina2018
Book
This title introduces the importance of Echoism as both a clinical entity and a theoretical concept. In Ovid's version of the myth of Echo and Narcissus, the character Echo receives equal attention to her counterpart, Narcissus, yet she has been completely marginalised in the pervasive psychoanalytic literatures on narcissism. In the myth, Echo is subjected to a curse: she must remain silent except for her right to repeat the words of another; so in order to have a voice she must seek out an 'other'. Relying upon Narcissus for her very existence she has, ironically, in the psychoanalytical literature, also become both the literal and symbolic embodiment of the marginalised female voice. This book introduces her as a subject in her own right, countering her current status as the co-dependent object of the narcissist, in an attempt to restore her existence and have her voice heard.
Main title:
Echoism : the silenced response to narcissism / Donna Christina Savery.
Author:
Savery, Donna Christina, author
Imprint:
London : Routledge, 2018.
Collation:
256 pages ; 24 cm
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781782204831 (pbk)
Dewey class:
155.232
Language:
English
BRN:
2691878