The Americanization of Narcissism /

The Americanization of Narcissism / / Elizabeth Lunbeck.

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American social critics in the 1970s, convinced that their nation was in decline, turned to psychoanalysis for answers and seized on narcissism as the sickness of the age. Books indicting Americans as greedy, shallow, and self-indulgent appeared, none more influential than Christopher Lasch's f...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Complete Package 2014
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Lunbeck, Elizabeth ,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART I. NARCISSISM IN THE ME DECADE
  • ONE. THE CULTURE OF NARCISSISM
  • TWO. HEINZ KOHUT'S AMERICAN FREUD
  • THREE. OTTO KERNBERG'S NARCISSISTIC DYSTOPIA
  • PART II. DIMENSIONS OF NARCISSISM FROM FREUD TO THE ME DECADE AND BEYOND
  • FOUR. SELF - LOVE
  • FIVE. INDEPENDENCE
  • SIX. VANITY
  • SEVEN. GRATIFICATION
  • EIGHT. INACCESSIBILITY
  • NINE. IDENTITY
  • CONCLUSION: NARCISSISM TODAY
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • NOTES
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INDEX

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