Narcissism and Locomotion

Corresponding to plants, animals, and humans, Aristotle conceives three types of Psyche to be, respectively, Nutritive, Sensitive, and Rational--with the first two sometimes alternatively classified as Vegetative and Animal--in ascending degrees of comprehensiveness, i. e. animal Psyches have both Nutritive and Sensitive parts, and humans, all three.  However, Aristotle overlooks the sensitivity of some plants, e. g. a venus fly-trap, and his rubric 'sensitive' under-represents the other cardinal characteristic in his category--locomotility.  So, the three can be perhaps more distinctively formulated as Vegetative, Locomotive, and Calculative.  Now, one instructive application of this model is to Freud's attempt to conceive and distinguish Primary and Secondary Narcissism.  For, the former, which is constituted by a feeling of apparently paradoxical Ego-Universe unity, is easily explained as a non-paradoxical Vegetative awareness, i. e. in which one is in immediate, dependent, interaction with one's environment, e. g. respiration.  In contrast, Locomotion consists in an independence from the environment that a plant does not enjoy.  So, Secondary Narcissism, in which the Ego splits from the Universe, can likewise be easily explained as a Locomotive awareness.  On that basis, the mere transition from Primary to Secondary is not, in itself, symptomatic of some Psychological disorder, as Freud and Marcuse take it be, a mistake that is avoidable in a broader historical perspective on the history of concepts of the Psyche.