RT Journal
A1 Harris JC
T1 CAravaggio's narcissus
JF Archives of General Psychiatry
JO Archives of General Psychiatry
YR 2010
FD November 1
VO 67
IS 11
SP 1109
OP 1109
DO 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2010.145
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2010.145
AB 
When Jove, king of the gods, playfully suggests to Juno, his queen, that women experience the greater pleasure in sex, Juno demurs. They consult Tiresias, a mortal who has been a man and a woman and knows both sides of love. When he agrees with Jove, the outraged Juno blinds him. To compensate his loss, Jove gives Tiresias foresight into the future. Thus, Liriope, mother of Narcissus, seeks him out and asks whether her most beautiful son will have a long life. Tiresias ruefully replies that Narcissus will live long if he never comes to know himself.1(p149)