Wilhelm Reich Wilhelm Reich ( , ; 24 March 1897 – 3 November 1957) was an Austrian Doctor of Medicine, doctor of medicine and a psychoanalysis, psychoanalyst, along with being a member of the second generation of analysts after Sigmund Freud. The author ...

first identified the phallic narcissistic personality type, with excessively inflated self-image. The individual is

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, a "social climber", admiration seeking, self-promoting, bragging and empowered by social success. According to

Otto Fenichel Otto Fenichel (2 December 1897 in Vienna – 22 January 1946 in Los Angeles) was a psychoanalyst of the so-called "second generation". Education and psychoanalytic affiliations Otto Fenichel started studying medicine in 1915 in Vienna. Already ...

, 'Phallic characters are persons whose behavior is reckless, resolute and self-assured - traits, however, that have a reactive character: they reflect a fixation at the phallic level, with overvaluation of the penis and confusion of the penis with the whole body'. Fenichel stressed that 'an intense

vanity Vanity is the excessive belief in one's own abilities or attractiveness to others. Prior to the 14th century it did not have such narcissistic undertones, and merely meant ''futility''. The related term vainglory is now often seen as an archaic s ...

and sensitiveness reveals that these narcissistic patients still have their narcissistic needs...for which they overcompensate'. Others would add that 'the ''phallic character'' conceives of sexual behaviour as a display of potency, in contrast to the genital character, who conceives of it as participation in a relationship'.Charles Rycroft, ''A Critical Dictionary of Psychoanalysis'' (Penguin 1977) p. 117

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