M. Hrdlicka, THE PICTURE OF NARCISSISM IN THE WORK OF NIETZSCHE,FRIEDRICH - AN ATTEMPT AT THE CRITICAL ANALYSIS, Ceskoslovenska psychologie, 41(5), 1997, pp. 458-465
Nietzsche's philosophical poem,,So spoke Zarathustra'' belongs to the
fundamentals of modern thinking, The author analyzed this work regardi
ng the problems of narcissism. Although the overall tenor of the poem
doesn't tend unambiguously to the promotion of narcissism, the poem it
self contents a number of pictures corresponding to narcissism which h
ad a far-reaching cultural meaning, Nietzsche was evidently the first
creator who presented systematically the peculiar attraction of egocen
tric and narcissistic motives for the human mind in his work.