Lester E P
Psychoanal Q. 1986 Jul;55(3):452-73.
Kris (1956) described the concept of the personal myth as an autobiographical story built around a family romance fantasy seen specifically in obsessive characters and serving a defensive function. In this paper the concept of the personal myth was expanded to include similar defensive constellations originating from within the grandiose self, built around omnipotent and omniscient fantasies and occurring in character formations with pregenital, narcissistic pathology. The case of a known author and poet, Nikos Kazantzakis, was used to illustrate the thesis of the paper. The available biographical material and the work of the author offer evidence to support the claim that the author's personal myth was a protective shield against anxiety originating in early narcissistic traumata.
克里斯（1956年）将个人神话的概念描述为一个围绕家庭罗曼史幻想构建的自传体故事，这种幻想在强迫性人格中尤为明显，并具有防御功能。在本文中，个人神话的概念得到了扩展，以包括源自夸大自体内部的类似防御结构，这些结构围绕着全能和全知的幻想构建，并出现在具有前生殖器期、自恋性病理的性格形成中。以知名作家兼诗人尼科斯·卡赞扎基斯的案例来说明本文的论点。现有的传记资料和作者的作品提供了证据，支持作者的个人神话是抵御源于早期自恋创伤的焦虑的保护盾这一说法。
