Narcissistic personaly disorr and gay men – a view om a leadg London psychologist for gay muny - Jt Duwe

Contents:

• 20 GAY GREEK GODS
• NARCISSISTIC PERSONALY DISORR AND GAY MEN – A VIEW OM A LEADG LONDON PSYCHOLOGIST FOR GAY MUNY
• 9 SIGNS YOU’RE LOVE WH A GAY NARCISSIST – FROM AN LGBTQ THERAPIST

20 GAY GREEK GODS

A gay cupbearer on Mount Olymp? While tolerance is often prented as a sign of civilizatn's advancement, a readg of Greek mythology reveals greater acceptance of homosexualy ancient Athens than n be boasted wh today's world religns. The LGBT Greek gods and migods prove gay culture is no morn ventn.

While Homer never explicly stat a gay relatnship between Achill and sikick Patrocl, many scholars read a romantic nnectn between the two, as only Patrocl ever drew out a passnate si to the famoly arrogant warrr. Rearcher Johanna Hypatia-Cybelaia wr that lbian and gay vote worshipped her as Artemis Orthia, and that lbian port Pamphilia referred to the godss hymn as Artemis Pergaea.

Above: Athena, center, a mural by John Sger SargentAphrodeWhile the godss of love is not intified promently as lbian herself, the Greek poet Sappho (as sapphic) of Lbos (y, as lbian) told many homoerotic tal and named Aphrode as the greatt patron and ally of lbians and homosexuals wh the Greek pantheon of gods.

NARCISSISTIC PERSONALY DISORR AND GAY MEN – A VIEW OM A LEADG LONDON PSYCHOLOGIST FOR GAY MUNY

Above: Enrique Simo, El Juic Paris (1904)ErosWhile the bt-known myths of Eros pict the son of Aphrode as a fertily god -- the versn that proved spiratnal to the popularized Roman god Cupid -- later Greek myths portrayed Eros as one of several wged erot, and the one regard as a protector of homosexual culture, acrdg to rearch the scholarly book Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic the Ancient World. Steven Bhm Reflectg Narciss: A Queer Athetic (Mneapolis: Universy of Mnota Prs, 2001), 12, not that the earlit (Greek, predatg Ovid) agments of the Narciss myth were homoerotic. Many issu are to be found the substantial lerature on psychoanalysis (and psychiatry) and homosexualy that are not broached here, where my foc is primarily on analytic nstals of homosexuals’ pacy for object relatns—the issue on which the kntg together of homosexualy and narcissism is premised.

For broar treatments, see Kenh Lew, The Psychoanalytic Theory of Male Homosexualy (New York: Simon and Schter, 1988). Bayer’s classic work on psychiatry, Homosexualy and Amerin Psychiatry: The Polics of Diagnosis (New York: Basic Books, 1981).

9 SIGNS YOU’RE LOVE WH A GAY NARCISSIST – FROM AN LGBTQ THERAPIST

Peter Gay, Frd: A Life for Our Time (New York: Norton, 1998 [1988]), 274–275.

“My homosexualy”: Frd to Ferenczi, October 17, 1910. Pl Robson, “Frd and Homosexualy, ” Whose Frd: The Place of Psychoanalysis Contemporary Culture, ed. Brill, “The Conceptn of Homosexualy, ” Journal ofthe Amerin Medil Associatn 61 (1913), 335–340.