Narcissism in Leontes: A Note on The Winter's Tale
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Leontes' jealousy is a form of paranoia caused by his narcissism. In his earliest days of childhood, he formed his primary identity, by mirroring himself on his best friend Polixenes. There was a strong resemblance between these two men and each regarded the other as his double. This means that their relation was highly narcissistic. Both Hermione and Polixenes' wife seemed to them to interlude their narcissistic relation. After their marriage, both men have tried to maintain their relation as it was by substituting the exchanges of gifts for it. Now Polixenes' stay at Leontes' castle gives them a chance to return to their childhood. While Leontes tries to extend the period of this return, Polixenes is ready to leave such a relation behind him: he accepts Hermione's advice, refusing Leontes'. For Leontes, Polixenes is a betrayer and Hermione is a seducer of Polixenes who succeeds to tempt Polixenes to give up his narcissistic relation with him. Leontes remembers how he was tempted by Hermione to leave the narcissistic closed world of narcissism which he shared only with his double when he married her. He becomes jealous of the relation between these two enemies of his narcissism. In order to punish both of them, he tries to kill them. After losing Polixenes' friendship, Leontes finds his double in Mamillius. His death, however, ends his wish to regain narcissistic comfort and persuades him to form human relations other than narcissistic ones: i. e. his libido, which has been pent up in his ego, is now released to attach to an object. His acting as go-between for Florizel and Perdita is a substituted form of "reparation': Leontes is trying to repair his relation with Hermione. In the final scene Hermione, who seemed to be a lifeless statue at first, moves. This event symbolizes Leontes'transformation: in the past he stayed in the narcissistic relation which was separated from others and was static; however, now he is living in dynamic relation with others.
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