The teenager facing suicide: death and creativity of Narcissus
https://doi.org/10.4081/rp.2011.462
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The relationship between narcissistic fragility and the cruel experiences of narcissistic depression promoted by this condition and the representation of death is investigated on the basis of an extensive clinical activity with adolescents who have recently attempted suicide. In these cases, an energetic creative impulse takes off that gives death a high aesthetic value and characterises it as a far more valuable solution than life. The suicidal Self lives and works in a closed space of the Self without any relational action, but when it meets with the therapist it can give life to a new non-suicidal Self, mindful of the relationship with death but determined to postpone its advent.
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