This leads the reader towards understanding the Echo character as consuming of Narcissus in some way, providing us with a lens into understanding something of the relationship dynamic between echoism and narcissism.
I have experienced what I consider to be two distinct types of echoism which I refer to as defensive echoism and self-destructive echoism, respectively.
When this philosophical state of being, a being-for-others, becomes a defensive psychological organisation and a primary mode of Being, we are, I believe, in the presence of echoism, in which the patient subjugates her own being-for-herself, in favour of Being-for the other.
Next in line is the echoism shape, where two people look like each other.
The relative size of the features is not relevant; it is the shapes alone that determine echoism.
But when two individuals look the same we have echoism. This is when an individual looks like their partner, sometimes to the extent that people who don't know them assume that they'remembers of the same family.
Yet they had echoism and their loving relationship made it possible for them to further both their political and creative ideals.''
The next review is of Donna Savery's
Echoism, a book with as sole focus the issue of
echoism as linked to narcissism (see Savery's article on page 142).
First, I believe it is important not to come to the wrong conclusion from the new term 'echoism' with which the author has chosen to identify a specific psychic phenomenon.
Savery writes about a new phenomenon: 'echoism' which existed previously but, until now, had gone unnoticed.
Introduction: The place of Echoism in existential analysis, psychotherapy and psychoanalysis
This paper forms an attempt both to reinstate the importance of Echoism as a theoretical concept, and to recognise the distinct features of the echoistic client's way of being in an attempt to meet her specific needs in clinical practice.