Response to Dr Britton’s paper.

In this article the author responds to Dr.R.B. Britton's paper on narcissism. The author says that Dr. Britton has defined the field he finds pertinent to his clinical practice. In doing this he has added an original thought of his own that the relationship between self and ego ideal in narcissistic states displaces the relationship between ego and super ego. He describes this as a defensive response to a super ego that cannot be faced. And he asked the question: Is a narcissistic state therefore an evasion of the super ego and an alternative to seeking love from the super ego? This is one of the gems of this paper and it shifts thinking about narcissism away from its predominantly envy based roots in the Kleinian development.