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Even where it emerges without any sexual purpose, in the blindest fury of destructiveness, the satisfaction of an instinct is accompanied by an extraordinarily high degree of narcissistic enjoyment⋯ owing to its old wishes for omnipotence.
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McCarthy, J.B. Narcissism and the self in homicidal adolescents. Am J Psychoanal 38, 19–29 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01250119
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