The Greek myth of Narcissus is directly concerned with a 
fact of human experience, as the word Narcissus  indicates. It is 
from the Greek word narcosis , or numbness. The youth 
Narcissus mistook his own reflection in the water for another 
person. This extension of himself by mirror numbed his 
perceptions until he became the servomechanism of his own 
extended or repeated image. The nymph Echo tried to win his 
love with fragments of his own speech, but in vain. He was 
numb. He had adapted to his extension of himself and had 
become a closed system.

     Now the point of this myth is the fact that men at once 
become fascinated by any extension of themselves in any 
material other than themselves. There have been cynics who 
insisted that men fall deepest in love with women who give 
them back their own image. Be that as it may, the wisdom of