Chapter 1
Introduction
Chapter 2
Th e Villain and the Reasons of Violence
Chapter 3
Th e Eff ects of Superego and Object Relations on
Personality Disorders
Chapter 4
Th e Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Its Defenses
1. Th e Narcissistic Personality Disorder
2. Th e Defense Mechanisms of the Narcissistic Personality
Disorder
Chapter 5
Th e Narcissist in Literary Texts
1. Robert Browning – My Last Duchess
2. William Shakespeare – Othello
2.1. Iago
3. Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray
3.1. Dorian Gray
3.2. Lord Henry Wotton
4. Similarities between The Duke of Ferrara and
Dorian Gray
Chapter 6
Conclusion
References