LynnS
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Envy: Snow White
Artwork: This illustration originally appeared in 1885 by W. C. Drupsteen. It was reprinted in Van Der Hoeven, G. Snowdrop. W. C. Drupsteen, illustrator. London: S. W. Partridge & Co., 1909.
Excerpt from "Snow White" by the Brothers Grimm:
http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/sevendwarfs/index.html
"After a year had passed the King took to himself another wife. She was a beautiful woman, but proud and haughty, and she could not bear that anyone else should surpass her in beauty. She had a wonderful looking-glass, and when she stood in front of it and looked at herself in it, and said -
"Looking-glass, Looking-glass, on the wall,
Who in this land is the fairest of all?"
the looking-glass answered --
"Thou, O Queen, art the fairest of all!"
Then she was satisfied, for she knew that the looking-glass spoke the truth.
But Snow-white was growing up, and grew more and more beautiful; and when she was seven years old she was as beautiful as the day, and more beautiful than the Queen herself. And once when the Queen asked her looking-glass-
"Looking-glass, Looking-glass, on the wall,
Who in this land is the fairest of all?"
it answered --
"Thou art fairer than all who are here, Lady Queen."
But more beautiful still is Snow-white, as I ween."
Then the Queen was shocked, and turned yellow and green with envy. From that hour, whenever she looked at Snow-white, her heart heaved in her breast, she hated the girl so much.
And envy and pride grew higher and higher in her heart like a weed, so that she had no peace day or night."
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Links About Envy:
The Green-Eyed Narcissist by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
http://samvak.tripod.com/narcissistjealous.html
quote:
"For he who derives contentment from his own humiliation cannot but derive happiness from the downfall of others. Indeed, most of them end up driving the objects of their own devotion and adulation to destruction and decrepitude...
From Winning Teams: Envy
http://winning-teams.com/definitions.html#envy
quote:
Envy is a feeling or an emotional state of grudging or admiring discontent aroused by the possessions, achievements, or qualities of another, involving the desire to have for oneself something possessed by another; covetousness. Envy is usually linked to narcissism, paranoia and projection (or projective identification) and tends to be evident in varying degrees in all narcissists. "Envy always involves a comparison - we envy that which we lack".
From The Arrogant/Overt Narcissist
http://www1.appstate.edu/~hillrw/Narcissism/arrogantnarcissist.html
quote:
"Ironically, although pathological narcissists harbor feelings of envy toward others often feeling jealous of others' talents, accomplishments, and possessions, the arrogant narcissist professes a belief that it is actually others who envy them, and they react with suspiciousness and intense feelings of rage when perceiving others' envy."
From Changing Minds
http://changingminds.org/disciplines/psychoanalysis/concepts/narcissism.htm
quote:
"Narcissists often need to feel that they are the only good objects in the world and consequently harbor great envy, which appears as narcissistic rage that seeks to destroy the good objects of others. This leaves bad objects intact."
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"The best way out is always through."--Robert Frost
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Oct/26/2008, 1:19 pm
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