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"The first ‘destruction’ attributable to narcissism is metapsychological. The concept does more than add a stone to the Freudian edifice ; it destabilises its construction and anticipates the ‘turning-point’ of 1920. In its passion of the One, narcissism paradoxically puts an end to the dream of a unified theory. The threat in practice is no lesser, when the narcissistic complaint (‘I feel empty’) transforms the analysis into a discourse on ‘emotional states’."