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‘I deserve the best and I accept the best’: Exploring Female Narcissism in Me Myself IPolona Petek1 See [last accessed 15 September 2002] for anextensive list of reviews.2 James Berardinelli, Me Myself I, [last accessed 15 September 2002].3 Clifford Hallam, ‘The double as incomplete self: toward a definition of doppelgänger’ in EugeneJ Crook (ed.), Fearful Symmetry: Doubles and Doubling in Literature and Film. Selected Papersfrom the 5th Annual Florida State University Conference on Literature and Film, UniversityPresses of Florida, Tallahassee, 1981, pp 1-31.4 Hallam, op cit, p 11.5 Hallam, op cit, pp 12-13. Depth psychology is an alternative but less frequently used term forpsychoanalysis. Cf. Encarta World English Dictionary.6 Hallam, op cit, p 18.7 James Strachey (ed), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of SigmundFreud [SE], Hogarth Press, London, 1953-1975. Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (SE volVII, pp 125-245); Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of his Childhood (SE vol XI, pp 59-137);Totem and Taboo (SE vol XIII, pp 1-162); ‘On narcissism: an introduction’ (SE vol XIV, pp 67-102).8 For a concise explanation of the different implications of castration anxiety in girls and boys,according to Freud, see Elisabeth Bronfen’s entry on castration complex in Elizabeth Wright (ed),Feminism and Psychoanalysis. A Critical Dictionary, Blackwell, Oxford, UK, and Cambridge,Mass., 1992, pp 41-5.9 Otto Rank, ‘Der Doppelgänger’, Imago: Zeitschrift für Anwendung der Psychoanalyse auf dieGeisteswissenschaften, vol III, 1914, pp 97-164. Cf. Otto Rank, The double. A PsychoanalyticStudy, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1971.10 SE vol XVII, pp 217-56.11 Freud, The Ego and the Id (1923) in SE vol XIX, pp 1-59.12 Teresa de Lauretis, ‘Oedipus interruptus’, Wide Angle vol 7, nos 1-2, 1985, p 38.13 Mary Ann Doane, The Desire to Desire: The Woman’s Film of the 1940s, Indiana UniversityPress, Bloomington, 1987, p 9.14 Doane, op cit, p 6.15 ibid.16 Kaja Silverman, The Acoustic Mirror: The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema, IndianaUniversity Press, Bloomington, 1988, p 85.17 SE vol XVIII, pp 221-32.18 SE vol XVIII, p 226.19 SE vol XVIII, p 230.20 SE vol XVIII, p 231.21 SE vol VII, pp 1-124.22 Cf. John Forrester, ‘Freud, Dora and the untold pleasures of psychoanalysis’ in Lisa Appignanesi(ed.), Desire. ICA Documents, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 1984, pp 4-8.23 SE vol XVII, p 235.24 E T A Hoffmann’s The Sandman (1816-1817), Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of DrJekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) can serve assome of the best known literary examples, whereas Rye and Wegener’s The Student of Prague(1913) represents one of the doppelgänger’s earliest cinematic incarnations.25 SE vol XVII, p 245.26 SE vol XVII, p 249.