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Abstract

                Narcissism is a term based on psychological attitudes, thanks to which the human personality is characterized by self-hatred, self-love, self-delusion, pride, arrogance, extreme mental states, sexism and creative desires. Narcissism is a pervasive love of self-image that can make it possible to recognize the image of one’s inner self in a mirror. Its clear traces are visible in the literature from the Greek era to the Roman era. Ovid’s Metamorphoses has embellished it with a long form. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, narcissistic emotions and feelings have been expressed in Western Literature. In the 19^th century P. Nack used it as a medical term to describe mental illness. As a psychologist, Freud considered mental and internal conditions based on narcissism as a disorder of human personality. After that, psychologists associated with Kohuti and Lacanian schools of thought and the American Psychiatric Association sought to bring out the role of narcissism in the construction and destruction of human personality. In the 20^th century, the term narcissism started to have its effects on Urdu Fiction. Therefore, Urdu Fiction writers have presented the mental and internal conditions of our society and society in their works. Through his fictional characters, he has tried to inculcate attitudes that lead to narcissistic tendencies.