Narcissism in the Me Decade -- The culture of narcissism -- Heinz Kohut's American Freud -- Otto Kernberg's narcissistic dystopia -- Dimensions of narcissism from Freud to the Me Decade and beyond -- Self-love -- Independence -- Vanity -- Gratification -- Inaccessibility -- Iden…
Biographical note: Elizabeth Lunbeck, Vanderbilt University, USA. Narcissism's rich and complex history is also the history of the shifting fortunes and powerful influence of psychoanalysis in American thought and culture. Telling this story, The Americanization of Narcissism u…
"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 Chri…
Narcissism's rich and complex history is also the history of the shifting fortunes and powerful influence of psychoanalysis in American thought and culture. Telling this story, The Americanization of Narcissism ultimately opens a new view on the central questions faced by the se…
