The Defense Mechanisms and The Behaviour of The Criminal Mind

Chapter 1

Introduction

Chapter 2

Th e Villain and the Reasons of Violence

Chapter 3

Th e Eff ects of Superego and Object Relations on

Personality Disorders

Chapter 4

Th e Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Its Defenses

1. Th e Narcissistic Personality Disorder
2. Th e Defense Mechanisms of the Narcissistic Personality

Disorder

Chapter 5

Th e Narcissist in Literary Texts

1. Robert Browning – My Last Duchess
2. William Shakespeare – Othello

2.1. Iago

3. Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray

3.1. Dorian Gray

3.2. Lord Henry Wotton

4. Similarities between The Duke of Ferrara and

Dorian Gray

Chapter 6

Conclusion

References