But when we talk about the Narcissus myth and narcissism, there’s a character ― and an accompanying psychological term ― we often forget about: Echo and echoism. In Ovid’s version of the ...

Source: Wikimedia Commons/Caravaggio/Public domain. I have long been fascinated by the myth of Echo and Narcissus, and may finally have cracked its meaning. First, let’s remind ourselves of the ...

Narcissism ― the personality disorder that’s been a mainstay in pop psychology for decades now ― gets its name from Narcissus, a hunter from Greek mythology who was so handsome, he fell in ...