The Americanization of narcissism /Elizabeth Lunbeck.
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
The culture of narcissism -- Heinz Kohut's American Freud -- Otto Kernberg's narcissistic dystopia -- Self-love -- Independence -- Vanity -- Gratification -- New patients -- Identity -- Narcissism, healthy and malignant.
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 self struggling amid the tumultuous crosscurrents of modernity.
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Narcissism--United States. Social values--United States.