Narcissism and Others

Egoism vs. Altruism is, contrary to common opinion, a false dichotomy, because Self and Other are not mutually exclusive.  Rather, as can be easily verified in ordinary experience, interest is less or more comprehensive, the object of which can range from oneself, to oneself plus one other, to plus several others, etc., as the Utilitarian calculus recognizes.  Freud presupposes that mutual exclusivity in his derivation of Secondary Narcissism from Primary Narcissism: the latter encompasses the entire world, while the scope of the former is the individual Ego detached from the rest of the world.  But, he fails to consider the possibility of degrees of withdrawal obtaining between the two stages, and, therefore, the possibility of a Narcissism that includes interest in at least some others.  Tha