ld like to be a man, and has a
considerable degree of contempt for women. She has an intense
admiration for her own person, especially her limbs; she is
never so happy as when alone and naked in her own bedroom, and,
so far as possible, she cultivates nakedness. She knows by heart
the various measurements of her body, is proud of the fact that
they are strictly in accordance with the canons of proportion,
and she laughs proudly at the thought that her thigh is larger
than many a woman's waist. She is frank and assured in her
manners, without sexual shyness, and, while willing to receive
the attention and admiration of others, she makes no attempt to
gain it, and seems never to have experienced any emotions
stronger than her own pleasure in herself. I should add that I
have had no opportunity of detailed examination, and cannot speak
positively as to the absence of masturbation.

In the extreme form in which alone the name of Narcissus may
properly be invoked, there is comparative indifference to sexual
intercourse or even the admiration of the opposite sex. Such a
condition seems to be rare, except, perhaps, in insanity. Since I
called attention to this form of auto-erotism (_Alienist and
Neurologist_, April, 1898), several writers have discussed the
condition, especially Naecke, who, following out the suggestion,
terms the condition Narcissism. Among 1,500 insane persons, Naecke
has found it in four men and one woman (_Psychiatrische en
Neurologische Bladen_, No. 2, 1899), Dr. C.H. Hughes writes (in a
private letter) that he is acquainted with such cases, in which
men have been absorbed in admiration of their own manly forms,
and of their sexual organs, and women, likewise, absorbed in
admiration of their own mammae and physical proportions,
especially of limbs. "The whole subject," he adds, "is a singular
phase of psychology, and it is not all morbid psychology, either.
It is closely allied to that aesthetic sense which admires the
nude in art."

Fere (_L'Instinct Sexuel_, 2d ed., p. 271) mentions a woman who
experienced sexual excitement in kissing her own hand. Naecke knew
a woman in an asylum who, during periodical fits of excitement,
would kiss her own arms and hands, at the same time looking like
a person in love. He also knew a young man with dementia praecox?