Love is Narcissism

When discussing his own love life, Jaques Derrida is quite reclusive, choosing to avoid the topic altogether. He often changes the subject to one he believes important, for certainly, he feels it unimportant for those who are creating the documentary, and even those who are viewing it, to know any depth about his life and love.
The story of Narcissus is one of the ways he avoids the topic of his own love life. He uses this story to give a more intimate detail of his earlier topics such as forgiveness and the purity of a relationship and the love between people. He interprets the image of the story as one about sound; he believes that Echo’s repetition of Narcissus’ words comes from the ‘infinite love’ and care she holds for imagery, or the use of language to produce such imagery (Derrida Documentary).
It is from this love that Echo forms her own language, private and unique, but no less powerful than those able to speak their full minds. “In repeating the language of another, she signs her own love” (Derrida Documentary). Echo creates both the image of her love, and the concept of it—an entirely new language—through the words of Narcissus.
Derrida claims that Echo is blind, for “…as always with speech, one is blind” (Derrida Documentary). He relates this blindness to that of Narcissus who admires himself and “To see oneself is a form of blindness. One sees nothing else” (Derrida Documentary). “Echo and Narcissus are then two blind people who love each other.”
It is often said that love is blind—we choose not who we love just as we do not choose our family or ourselves. I believe this is the purpose of Derrida’s story although he does not make this as clear as it can be.
I almost get the impression that he has been blind in love during his life, or at least, he sees it this way.