John Nash's Postdelusional Period: A Case of Transformed Narcissism |
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Authors: | Capps Donald |
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Institution: | (1) Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ |
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Abstract: | This article concludes the psychoanalytic study of mathematical genius John Nash begun in previous articles (Capps 2003a, 2003b) by focusing on his recovery from paranoid schizophrenia after more than a decade of being under control of his delusions. I develop the idea that Nash was a highly narcissistic personality, the primary focus of which was his beautiful mind, in the years preceding his mental breakdown. I attribute his recovery primarily to the transformation of his narcissistic personality and support this attribution by means of Heinz Kohut's identification of five major expressions of transformed narcissism in his classic essay on the forms and transformations of narcissism. |
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Keywords: | narcissistic personality transformed narcissism wisdom humor male religion |
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