In the Romantic Dynamics model, "pathological narcissism" is an important feature of our psychology which can shoot down nearly any aspect of romance, and ruin the progress in any of the three phases of courtship. We borrow from the Self Psychologists, and Psychodynamic theorists to understand it, but also add some principles of the Game Theory of Economics, most notably, the Nash Equilibrium, to understand it.

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The parents of Narcissus were told that he would live to an old age if he never saw his own image. He rejected all the women who fell in love with him, including the nymph, Echo, who was so upset in being jilted that she became depressed, and finally so melancholic, isolated and lonely that all that was left of her was a whisper. Her prayers were heard by the goddess Nemesis [Read more...] about Narcissus Instinct