Psychological
What if the thing you love most is the thing destroying you?
Narcissus was beautiful enough that everyone wanted him. Nymphs, mortals, men, women. He rejected them all. Not because he was cruel exactly, but because nobody matched the standard he already held: himself.
I burn with love for myself. I both kindle the flames and suffer them.— Narcissus, in Ovid's *Metamorphoses*
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Figure of Greek Myth
Narcissus is a figure from Greek mythology whose story, most famously told by the poet Ovid, explores the fatal consequences of extreme self-fixation.
Based on Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book III — The Story of Narcissus, summarised and reframed by Insights.
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