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