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Narcissus is a myth about another type of momma’s boy, one who like Pygmalion flees from all women but becomes enamored of his own reflection, a gaze that Freud in his essay on Leonardo traces back to how a mother lovingly looks down on her beautiful son.
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Tuman, M. (2019). The Narcissistic Son—Freud and da Vinci. In: The Sensitive Son and the Feminine Ideal in Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15701-2_7
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