Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T13:31:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dulce1.pdf: 57318 bytes, checksum: 97212f62fbb0f4b43ccb5b1d3617ea8f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-02-28 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to verify the relationship between narcissism, melancholy and the ideology of the technological rationality by means of some mediator concepts, for instance cultural industry, mass phenomena, that tend to reproduce the social dominance in a number of instances of an individual s life in our present society. It is a theoretical research that attempts to conduct the reflection on the tensions that exist among individual, nature, society and culture, using mainly the analyses of Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse and Sigmund Freud. The main results accomplished were: 1. Melancholy is a form through which narcissism manifests itself; every melancholy has some marks of narcissism. On its turn, narcissism is present in melancholy, but not only in it, and the narcissistic - including the manipulator type -, melancholic, compulsive and sadomasochistic conformations have a certain relationship and are associated with the irrational defense of the technique. 2. Both in narcissism and in melancholy it is present the ego weaknessing and the psychic regression in face of the need of self-conservation in the contemporary society. 3. The individual identifies a lot with the current culture that benefits the narcissism, so that cruelty, indifference and unawareness are indications that the claustrophobia of the society and the social hibernation reflect in the individual. 4. No matter how much the individual\'s conscience is mediated by the society, the critical reason, as opposed to the formalized reason, functionalized and subjective, may serve as a defense against the inner and outer miseries. We hope that this thesis encourages the completion of further researches, in particular the ones of empiric character. / RESUMO O objetivo deste estudo é verificar a relação entre o narcisismo, a melancolia e a ideologia da racionalidade tecnológica, por meio de alguns conceitos mediadores, tais como indústria cultural, fenômenos de massa, que tendem a reproduzir a dominação social, nas diversas instâncias da vida do indivíduo na sociedade atual. Trata-se de uma pesquisa teórica que procura orientar a reflexão sobre as tensões existentes entre indivíduo, natureza, sociedade e cultura, utilizando-se principalmente das análises de Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse e Sigmund Freud. Os principais resultados obtidos foram: 1. A melancolia é uma forma de o narcisismo manifestar-se; toda melancolia tem marcas do narcisismo. Por seu lado, o narcisismo apresenta-se na melancolia, mas não somente nela, e as conformações narcisistas - incluindo o tipo manipulador -, melancólicas, compulsivas e sadomasoquistas guardam uma certa relação e estão associadas com a defesa irracional da técnica. 2. Tanto no narcisismo como na melancolia estão presentes o enfraquecimento do ego e a regressão psíquica diante da necessidade de autoconservação, na sociedade contemporânea. 3. O indivíduo está se identificando muito com a cultura atual que favorece o narcisismo, de modo que a crueldade, a indiferença e o alheamento indicam que a claustrofobia da sociedade e a hibernação social repercutem no indivíduo. 4. Por mais que a consciência do indivíduo seja mediada pela sociedade, a razão crítica, como contraposto à razão formalizada, funcionalizada e subjetiva, pode servir de defesa contra as misérias interior e exterior. Esperamos que esta tese estimule a realização de outras pesquisas, sobretudo, as de caráter empírico.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T19:20:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tiago Augusto Franco de Vasconcelos Souza.pdf: 2323525 bytes, checksum: e50029f332313ee21e4f019c2ea7c986 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-03 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This work treats the relationship between media and religion in the contemporary world through the analysis of the Christian matchmaker website, amoremcristo.com. More than just an address on the web, Amor em Cristo is a company active in social and digital media designed to unite couples in an emotional-romantic scope. The dissertation examines the object through sociological, technological, media, and religious views, always focusing on the post-digital era, a term taken from the Brazilian advertising leader, Walter Longo. This link between media and religion is an important new theme for the academic world, growing in public debate, and the adaptations that religious communities have made in communications to justify their presence on the internet. Authors such as sociologist Zygmunt Bauman and media and religion teacher Heidi Campbell contribute most to this bibliographic search methodology: the former focuses on behavior analysis of the younger generation and the latter on studies of religious communities that deal well with the media and pressure Bible hermeneutics for a healthy stay in front of the faithful in the twenty-first century communication environment. In the end, it may be perceived that most users of the site, amoremcristo.com, have been attracted in more than a decade because of a good communication position in this negotiation between religious language and the internet / Este trabalho trata da relação entre a mídia e a religião no mundo contemporâneo através da análise do site de relacionamentos cristão amormecristo.com. Mais do que um endereço na web, o Amor em Cristo é uma empresa atuante nas redes sociais e principais mídias digitais com o intuito de unir casais evangélicos no âmbito romântico-afetivo. A dissertação examina o objeto pelos vieses sociológico, tecnológico-midiático e religioso, sempre com foco na era pós-digital, termo retirado do publicitário brasileiro Walter Longo. Essa ligação entre mídia e religião é um tema novo e importante para a academia pelo seu crescimento no debate público e adaptações que as comunidades religiosas têm feito em suas comunicações para justificar sua presença nesse ambiente on-line. Autores como o sociólogo Zygmunt Bauman e a professora de mídia e religião Heidi Campbell compõem a maior parte da metodologia de pesquisa bibliográfica do trabalho, onde o primeiro traz contribuições na análise do comportamento das novas gerações e a segunda nos estudos de comunidades religiosas que sabem negociar com a mídia e pressionar a hermenêutica do livro para uma estadia saudável diante de seus fiéis nos ambientes de comunicação de massa do século XXI. Ao final, poderá ser percebido que a grande massa de usuários que o amoremcristo.com conquistou em mais de uma década, é consequência de um bom posicionamento comunicacional diante dessa negociação entre a linguagem religiosa e a internet

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T19:21:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Roberto Rosas Fernandes.pdf: 1641781 bytes, checksum: cdf55e91ac2666952b7e0e0cd77d8252 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-10-28 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The main purposes of this thesis are to approach the development of conscience through symbolic elaboration and to study narcissism as an impulse and, simultaneously, an obstacle to that process. Narcissism becomes an obstacle, when it was not enough mirrored during the first years of a person s life. This study offers an archetypal map of the most expressive tendencies that are observed at the clinical psychology practice, regarding the Self s yearning for overcoming archaic ways of being in the world, so as to reach other ways of doing so in more complete and comprehensive manners, just as religions, in their specific mode, have so well described. Therefore, this study is based on clinical observation, in which the differentiation movement from incestuous relationships becomes evident during to the search of the individual s center. This thesis assumes that there are affinities between the religious search and the natural flux of the psychodynamics and emphasizes the possible connection between the psychological study and the religious institutions. Through this study, people who are devoted to take care of the human soul may access the most significant findings of those who dedicated their lives to the study of the psychodynamics. This thesis is destined to psychologists, priests, and teachers that focus on facilitating the human development / Esta tese tem como objetivo principal abordar o desenvolvimento da Consciência por meio da elaboração simbólica e estudar o narcisismo como propulsor e, ao mesmo tempo, obstáculo a esse processo. Torna-se o narcisismo um obstáculo, quando não foi espelhado o suficiente durante os primeiros anos de vida da pessoa. Este estudo oferece um mapa arquetípico das tendências mais expressivas que são observadas, na prática clínica, a respeito dos anseios do Self de suplantar maneiras arcaicas de estar no mundo para atingir outras mais plenas e abrangentes, que as religiões, ao seu modo, tão bem souberam definir. Está, portanto, fundamentado na observação clínica, na qual fica evidente o movimento psíquico de diferenciação das relações incestuosas na busca da centralidade do sujeito. A tese parte da premissa de que exista uma afinidade entre busca religiosa e o fluxo natural da psicodinâmica e enfatiza a possibilidade de junção do estudo psicológico às intuições religiosas. Por meio desta tese, os cuidadores da alma humana têm acesso às descobertas mais significativas daqueles que dedicaram suas vidas ao estudo da psicodinâmica. Ela se destina a psicólogos, sacerdotes, pedagogos e a todos que buscam facilitar o desenvolvimento humano

Esta tese investiga as representações de maternidade em mulheres situadas na configuração monoparental feminina da contemporaneidade, analisando as implicações dessas significações no exercício da maternidade. Aborda as relações entre os significados, as atribuições da maternidade e a cultura, destacando as variações nas significações do ser mãe, atreladas aos deslocamentos dos sentidos do ser mulher, no curso do processo civilizador. Investiga as representações da maternidade para compreender a subjetividade da mulher-mãe na cultura contemporânea e os modos dessa exercer a função educativa no contexto monoparental, entendendo a centralidade do Desejo da Mãe na subjetivação do filho, na transmissão da ordem simbólica e na construção da sua cidadania. A pesquisa foi realizada com cinco mulheres sem cônjuge, com filhos, através de entrevistas semiabertas, sendo esse recurso empregado desde o campo conceitual da Psicanálise. A metodologia adotada foi a da pesquisa psicanalítica, em que o método freudiano de investigação dirigiu a escuta e interpretação das falas dos sujeitos. Para analisar essas falas, foram destacados elementos fundamentais desse grupo cultural, emergentes nos discursos das mulheres: a mãe, o filho e o pai. A base conceitual da Psicanálise sustenta a interpretação dos discursos das mães sobre o tema da maternidade, onde o narcisismo, a feminilidade, o complexo de Édipo e o Desejo de Mãe foram os eixos teóricos interpretativos principais, tomados na análise da subjetividade feminina. Na leitura e compreensão dessa temática, também foi realizado um diálogo com outras disciplinas das Ciências Humanas. A tese indica que os significados da maternidade e os modos de ocupação do lugar parental materno dependem das vivências narcísicas, identificatórias, edípicas e da economia de gozo da mulher, em conjunção com as expectativas culturais sobre parentalidade, filiação e conjugalidade. Em relação a essas questões, o estudo aponta a presença de pontos de tensão nas experiências das mães situadas na dobradiça, isto é, na transição da modernidade para a pós-modernidade. Os relatos permitem dizer que a Função Paterna inscrita na mulher, o pai simbólico da mãe, é o que torna possível a limitação da onipotência materna na configuração monoparental, assim como afirmar ser o pai real um importante agente na regulação da economia libidinal nessas famílias. Este estudo questiona o suposto da emergência de um matriarcado no laço social contemporâneo e o declínio da Função Paterna, assinalando que as mudanças da posição da mulher na cultura não implicam a realização da fantasia da mulher toda. Por outro lado, aponta uma possível mudança na economia pulsional das mulheres, naquilo que concerne ao gozo Outro, na maternidade. / This thesis investigates the representations of motherhood in women situated in the contemporary female single parent family configuration, analyzing the implications of these significations in the practice of motherhood. It approaches the relations among significances, motherhood attributions and culture, highlighting the variations in the significations of being a mother, linked to the displacements of the meanings of being a woman, along the civilizing process. It investigates the representations of motherhood in order to understand the subjectivity of the woman-mother in the contemporary culture and the ways they perform the educative function in the single parent context, understanding the centrality of Mother’s Wish in the subjectivation of the child, in the transmission of the symbolic order and in the construction of their citizenship. The research was developed with five women, no spouse, with children, by the means of semi-open interviews, being this resource used from the perspective of the conceptual field of Psychoanalysis. The methodology adopted was the psychoanalytic research, in which the listening and interpretation of the subjects’ speech was guided by Freud’s method of investigation. In order to analyze these speeches, fundamental elements of this cultural group, emerging from the women’s discourses, were highlighted: the mother, the child and the father. The conceptual basis of Psychoanalysis gives support to the interpretation of the discourses of these mothers about motherhood, where narcissism, femininity, the Oedipus complex and the Mother’s Wish were the main interpretative theoretical axes, taken in the analysis of female subjectivity. In the reading and understanding of this issue, a dialogue with other subjects of the Human Sciences was also developed. The thesis indicates that the significations of motherhood and the modes of occupation of the mother’s parental place depend on narcissistic, identification and oedipal experiences of the woman’s jouissance economy, associated with cultural expectations in relation to parenthood, filiation and conjugability. In relation to these questions, the study points to the presence of tension points in the experiences of mothers situated on the hinge, that is, in the transition from Modernity to Post-Modernity. From the reports, it is possible to say that the Paternal Function inscribed in the woman, the mother’s symbolic father, is what makes the limitation of maternal omnipotence possible in the single parent configuration, as well as to assert that the real father is an important agent in the regulation of the libidinal economy in these families. This study questions the supposed emergence of a matriarchy in the contemporary social bond and the decreasing of Paternal Function, pointing out that the changes of woman’s position in the culture don’t imply the coming true of the whole-woman fantasy. On the other hand, it points to a possible change in women’s drive economy, concerning the Other-jouissance, in motherhood.

Este trabalho trata da trajetória do conceito de superego na teoria freudiana desde o momento que os primeiros indícios de sua existência emergiram na clínica da histeria em 1892 até a segunda tópica em 1923, quando esta noção foi formalmente inserida na psicanálise, constituindo um dos pilares do aparelho psíquico ao lado do id e do ego. Para tanto a autora percorreu 1) as experiências pessoais e auto-analíticas de Freud descritas por seus biógrafos e por ele mesmo em sua extensa correspondência com Fliess, e também ao longo de seu livro A interpretação dos sonhos, que na verdade é uma valiosa peça autobiográfica; 2) a percepção de Freud dos fenômenos superegóicos relatados em alguns de seus casos clínicos desde a pré-história da psicanálise; e 3) a teoria psicanalítica, sendo que o foco principal foi o período de investigação conduzido por Freud entre os anos de 1892 e 1923. Ao longo deste estudo foram ressaltados os principais atributos, a natureza, as origens e as funções que o superego desempenha no psiquismo humano e concluiu-se que o superego, por conta de seu vínculo com a pulsão de morte, de sua militância no id e de sua ascendência nos conflitos incestuosos e parricidas do complexo de Édipo, é uma estrutura psíquica por natureza violenta e cruel. Uma vez que a participação do superego é estrutural na organização psíquica, cabe ao ego controlar sua fúria, defendendo o psiquismo de seus ataques destrutivos. / This paper follows the trajectory of the concept of the superego in Freudian theory from the first signs of its development in 1892 trough hysteria clinic, to the point in 1923 when it was formally incorporated in his psychoanalysis, forming one of the pillars of the psychical apparatus next to the ego and the id. To achieve this objective, the author examined 1) Freuds personal and auto-analytical experiences as described by his biographers and by himself in both his book The Interpretation of Dreams and in the long and intense correspondence with Wilhelm Fliess; 2) Freuds perceptions of the superegos role in the human psyche as described in some of his clinical cases; and 3) psychoanalytic theory, focused mainly on Freuds work between 1892 and 1923. The author aimed to highlight the main features, the nature, the origins and the functions that the superego performs in the human psyche and concluded that the superego, because of its close link with the death drive, its confrontational relationship with the id and its emergence in the incestuous and parricidal conflicts of the Oedipus complex, is by nature a cruel and violent psychical structure. Given the superegos structural participation in the psychical mechanism, it is up to the ego to control its wrath, defending itself from the destructive assault of the superego.

Social networking sites (SNSs) are growing in popularity and diversity. Prior research has shown that SNSs use is correlated with various personality traits including narcissism. To date, no work has examined the association between SNSs use and self-actualization. Given the potential overlap of narcissism and self-actualization, the goal of the present study was to first examine the conceptual overlap of these two intrapersonal characteristics. We then sought to examine the associations between SNSs use, narcissism, and self-actualization with an expectation that self-actualization would mediate the association between SNSs use and narcissism. One thousand six hundred and four adults completed an online survey with questions to assess their demographic traits, SNSs activities, and personality characteristics. Results indicated some overlap between narcissism and self-actualization; but, in general, each was a distinct personality trait. Results also demonstrated that the association between self-actualization and SNSs usage was not significant. Contrary to our prediction, self-actualization did not mediate the association between SNSs activities and narcissism. Finally, the study found that narcissism scores were reportedly higher after using SNSs than they were prior to SNSs use.

La présente thèse vise à réfléchir sur les actions éducatives qui ont pour but de promouvoir de la « sociabilité démocratique » - l’une des directives de la scolarisation au Brésil - à partir de l’investigation sur les impasses relatives au lien fraternel et de l’affirmation selon laquelle l’école peut être comprise en tant que dispositif sociétal impliqué dans ce que nous appelons « socialisation du narcissisme ». Pour ce faire, deux lignes de travail sont développées. La première, consacrée aux vicissitudes des fratries, part du débat établi entre Einstein et Freud en 1932 sur les « puissantes forces psychologiques » qui agissent dans le sens d’entraver le rêve d’une vie commune moins marquée par la haïne et par la ségrégation. L’objectif ici est de reprendre ce débat et de reconstituer le mythe freudien de l’origine de la culture pour soutenir que l’approfondissement d’une éthique fraternelle exige que nous prenions en compte l’antagonisme insurmontable sur lequel la relation entre semblables est basée. La deuxième ligne de travail cherche à mettre en évidence le caractère nécessaire de la participation du semblable dans le processus de subjectivation de l’être humain. Si dans un premier moment Freud nous a aidé à constituer un cadre de références pour l’interprétation des ambivalences et de la fragilité du lien fraternel, l’objectif maintenant est de montrer comment le conflit du sujet avec son semblable peut être compris à travers l’analyse des processus identificatoires requis dans ce processus de subjectivation. Pour cela, nous faisons recours à l’essai Le stade du miroir, de Lacan, et à quelques écrits de l’écrivaine brésilienne Clarice Lispector. / The aim of this thesis is to reflect upon educational actions whose purpose is to promote “democratic sociability” – one of the directives of schooling in Brazil – from the investigation on the impasses related to fraternal bond and the assertion that school can be understood as a societal system associated with what we call the "socialization of narcissism". For this, two lines of work are being developped. The first one, dedicated to the investigation on the impasses of fraternal bond and the vicissitudes of phatries, starts from the debate between Einstein and Freud in 1932 on "psychological factors of weight" that act in the sense of hindering the dream of a life in common less marked by hatred and segregation. The aim here is to recover this debate and reconstitute the Freudian myth of the origin of culture to support that the further development of a fraternal ethic requires that we take into account the insurmountable antagonism on which the relation among fellow creatures is based. As to the second line of work, what is sought is to highlight the necessary character of the participation of the fellow creature in the process of subjectivation of the human being. If, at the beginning, the study of Freud's socio-anthropological works helped to provide a framework of references for the interpretation of ambivalences and the fragility of the fraternal bond, the objective is now to show how the conflict of the subject with the fellow creature can be understood through the analysis of the identifying processes required in this process of subjectivation. In order to achieve this, the essay Le stade du miroir by Lacan and some writings by Clarice Lispector are used. / Esta tese busca refletir sobre as ações educativas que têm como fim a promoção da“sociabilidade democrática” – uma das diretrizes da escolarização no Brasil. Parte-se, paraisso, de uma reflexão sobre os impasses relativos ao laço fraterno e da afirmação de que aescola pode ser compreendida como um dispositivo societário implicado com o quedenominamos, na companhia da psicanalista Maria Rita Kehl, de “socialização donarcisismo”. Três linhas de trabalho são, então, requeridas. A primeira, dedicada àinvestigação dos impasses do laço fraterno e às vicissitudes das fratrias, tem como ponto departida o debate estabelecido entre Einstein e Freud, em 1932, sobre os “fatores psicológicosde peso” que atuam no sentido de dificultar – ou até mesmo de inviabilizar – o sonho de umavida em comum menos marcada pelo ódio, pelos preconceitos e pela segregação. O objetivo,aqui, é recuperar esse debate e reconstituir o mito freudiano da origem da cultura para deleextrair uma diferença que aparece em filigranas no pensamento de Freud: se a horda primitivanos remete a uma massa de indivíduos indiferenciados entre si porque subjugados à violênciae ao autoritarismo do pai-primevo, a comunidade fraterna, por outro lado, remete-nos arelações sociais mediadas pela autoridade da Lei simbólica e, por isso, marcadas pelarivalidade e pela agressividade entre semelhantes. Como pensar, então, o aprofundamento deuma ética fraterna quando afirmamos que as relações numa fratria são atravessadas por umantagonismo constitutivo e, por isso, intransponível? A segunda linha de trabalho buscaresgatar das teorias de Claude Lefort e de Cornelius Castoriadis algumas noções que nosajudam a compreender o que implica, para a experiência política do Ocidente, a invenção dademocracia. Na terceira linha de trabalho, finalmente, destaco o caráter necessário daparticipação do semelhante no processo de subjetivação do rebento humano. Se num primeiromomento o estudo das obras “socioantropológicas” (ENRIQUEZ, 2005) de Freud ajudou-nosa constituir um quadro de referências para a interpretação das ambivalências e da fragilidadedo laço fraterno, o objetivo agora é mostrar como a conflitiva do sujeito com o semelhantepode ser compreendida por meio da análise dos processos identificatórios requeridos nesseprocesso de subjetivação. Para isso, realizo um mergulho simultâneo no ensaio O estádio doespelho como formador da função do eu, de Lacan, e na obra A paixão segundo G.H., daescritora Clarice Lispector.Palavras-

Personality disorders have traditionally been considered refractory to psychological interventions. Two of the most common, and potentially harmful personality disorders are antisocial personality disorder / psychopathy, and narcissism. Although a great deal of conceptual overlap exists between psychopathy and narcissism, the empirical study of these constructs has proceeded largely independently of one another. Further complicating the discrimination of these constructs is the identification of the bi-factorial nature of psychopathy - conceptualised as primary and secondary psychopathy - as well as the identification of two distinct forms of narcissism, overt and covert. The recent resurgence of interest in the sub-clinical manifestations of these two constructs has led to the development of a number of easily administered instruments to measure each of the psychopathy and narcissism constructs, as dimensional traits, within normal populations. This has provided empirically validated and reliable instruments to further explicate these two overlapping constructs. The first of the two studies reported sought to discriminate between psychopathy and narcissism through the recharacterisation of these constructs in terms of the early maladaptive schemas outlined in Young’s early maladaptive schema theory (Young, 1999). Two hundred and ninety one participants completed questionnaires measuring primary and secondary psychopathy, overt and covert narcissism, and early maladaptive schemas. Findings are consistent with the hypothesis that psychopathy and narcissism are discriminable in cognitive-interpersonal terms, as operationalised by early maladaptive schemas. Findings also call into question the earlier observed hierarchical structure of the Young Schema Questionnaire. The current analysis identified a two-factor structure to the schema questionnaire, rather than the previously stated 5-factors. Having demonstrated the usefulness of understanding psychopathy and narcissism in cognitive-interpersonal terms, the second study sought to further clarify the association between psychopathy and narcissism through the reconceptualisation of these constructs in cognitive terms, through the identification of the cognitive distortions operative in each disorder. One hundred and thirty two participants completed a cognitive distortions questionnaire developed by the author, along with the same measures of primary and secondary psychopathy, and overt and covert narcissism, as those administered in study 1. Findings were interpreted as providing support for the notion of psychopathy representing a sub-category of narcissism. Findings also provide further supportive evidence for the validity of the primary / secondary psychopathy, and overt / covert narcissism distinctions. The further clarification of the factor structure of the Young Schema Questionnaire, and the replication of the reliability and construct validity of the measure of cognitive distortions developed for this research are highlighted as areas for future research.

The presence of both narcissism and social capital in the digital social networking site Facebook is altering the dynamic of relationship development. Therefore, the central research question directing this study is as follows: What role do narcissistic personality traits play in bridging social capital on Facebook? From this, two sub-questions are raised: 1) What are the motives for users to express narcissistic traits through Facebook? 2) How is narcissistic-motivated activity influencing social capital development through Facebook? Guiding this thesis are concepts of social tie relationships (as they apply to narcissism), and digital social networks. An exploratory study of in-depth interviews was utilized to conduct such research. A key objective in this thesis is understanding motive and purpose for generating social capital in an online environment. The findings from this study suggest Facebook is a facilitator for the expression of narcissistic traits. As a result, this is influencing the disconnected and questionable value of digital social capital.

Abstract The aim of this present study was to investigate whether there is a relationship between birth order and the personality trait narcissism using 181 individuals from Finnveden High School in Värnamo (115 females, 60 males, mean age 17, sd=0,94), in the context of the proposal of Sulloway (1996) that personality is influenced by the specialized nich-es siblings adopt in the quest for access to parental resources. A questionnaire which in-cludes Narcissistic Personality Inventory test, Birth order test and also Rosenberg’s self-esteem test in order to investigate if it might has an impact on narcissistic personality trait, was used. Results showed that there was no significant relationship between birth order and narcissism, however, a significant relationship between narcissism and self-esteem was found. Furthermore, there was a significant relationship between narcissism and the individual’s relationship with the mother. In conclusion, there was no direct rela-tionship between birth order and narcissism. Our hypothesis was falsified and no support for Sulloways theory was found.