Keyword: «primary narcissism»

The phenomena of primary and secondary narcissism clarify the deep aspects of a personality structure. This scientific discourse is classic for psychoanalysis, but at the same time, it remains relevant even today. The goal of this work is to highlight the aspects of primary and secondary narcissism based on critical and theoretical analysis and to compare research works in this field of scientific knowledge. This is important for orienteering in mental processes of the subject and for diagnostic purposes. In a practical sense, this helps determine dynamics and further impact strategies. The novelty of the work is in determining and structuring the characteristics and manifestations of two types of narcissism. The results are reflected in the form of characteristics identified in the course of the study in accordance with the selected categories of analysis, which are: libido tendencies, pathological manifestations, level of personality organization, intrapsychic representation, type of object selection, transfer features, leading instincts (drives), mental principles, specifics of fixation at the stage of development, mental topology, features of hermeneutics and the principle of reality.