Americanization of Narcissism by Lunbeck, Elizabeth
Americanization of Narcissism by Lunbeck, Elizabeth

Americanization of Narcissism

American social critics in the 1970s, convinced that their nation was in decline, turned to psychoanalysis for...
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Author: Elizabeth Lunbeck
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Americanization of Narcissism by Lunbeck, Elizabeth

Americanization of Narcissism

$97.06
Americanization of Narcissism by Lunbeck, Elizabeth

Americanization of Narcissism

$97.06
Author: Elizabeth Lunbeck
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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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 famous 1978 jeremiad The Culture of Narcissism. This line of critique reached a crescendo the following year in Jimmy Carter's "malaise speech" and has endured to this day.

But as Elizabeth Lunbeck reveals, the American critics missed altogether the breakthrough in psychoanalytic thinking that was championing narcissism's positive aspects. Psychoanalysts had clashed over narcissism from the moment Freud introduced it in 1914, and they had long been split on its defining aspects: How much self-love, self-esteem, and self-indulgence was normal and desirable? While Freud's orthodox followers sided with asceticism, analytic dissenters argued for gratification. Fifty years later, the Viennese migr Heinz Kohut led a psychoanalytic revolution centered on a "normal narcissism" that he claimed was the wellspring of human ambition, creativity, and empathy. But critics saw only pathology in narcissism. The result was the loss of a vital way to understand ourselves, our needs, and our desires.

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.



Author: Elizabeth Lunbeck
Publisher: Harvard
Published: 03/10/2014
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.49lbs
Size: 9.42h x 6.46w x 1.25d
ISBN: 9780674724860


Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2014 pg. 350
Christian Century 11/26/2014 pg. 30

About the Author
Lunbeck, Elizabeth: - Elizabeth Lunbeck is Professor of the History of Science in Residence at Harvard University.
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