Detail from Echo and Narcissus by John William Waterhouse (1903) Source: Walker Art Gallery/Public Domain As portrayed by the first-century BCE Roman poet Ovid, Narcissus is a handsome lad pursued ...

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 ...

This prediction inevitably comes to fruition after Narcissus is subject to divine punishment for his rejection of the nymph, Echo. (In an alternative tradition, to which Ovid also alludes ...

While Ovid is a master at portraying humans ... we see women reject men’s offers of love. When Narcissus asserts that Echo wants “to jump [his] bones,” Echo replies, “I don’t want ...

According to Ovid — whose version of the tale is the loveliest, most wistful, and most touchingly droll — the young Boeotian hunter Narcissus spurned the love of the nymph Echo, and Nemesis ...

The most famous account of the mythical figure of Echo comes from Book III of Ovid’s Metamorphoses ... becomes unable to woo the self-absorbed Narcissus, whom she loves unrequitedly; she ...

We call that personality type narcissistic, after the myth of Narcissus. The character still gives a name to something we recognize. But what about Echo? In the same myth, Echo falls for Narcissus ...

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 ...