From Chaos to the Organization of the Psyche: Primary Narcissism as the First Form of Relationship and Regulation

The present study proposes that myths constitute one of the earliest major forms of organization of human experience. Before philosophical concept, before systematic science, and before stable psychic self-observation, human beings attempted to give form to their primary tensions through mythic narratives. Taking as its point of departure Greek cosmogony, from Chaos to the Titanomachy, this text examines myths as symbolic formations of mechanisms of survival, need, relationality, and the organization of coexistence. Through the theoretical lens of primary narcissism, projective identification, and the narcissistic spectrum, it is demonstrated that cosmogonic figures concern not only the origin of the world, but also the origin of psychic life, the anxiety in the face of difference, and the gradual constitution of the relationship with the Other. Greek mythology functions here as a powerful example that enables a broader theoretical opening: each culture can be read through its own myths as a carrier of primary forms of knowledge concerning existence, conflict, the emergence of the new, and the necessity of forming a shared world. Theoretical framework: Freud, Klein, Bion, Winnicott, Green, Kernberg, Kohut, Ogden, Friston, Schore, Porges, Damasio, Panksepp, Seth, Lévi-Strauss, Eliade, Vernant, Burkert, Cassirer, Ricoeur, Castoriadis, Plato, Aristotle, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Empedocles, Anaximander, Anaxagoras, Democritus, Epicurus, Plotinus.