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Auteur(s) : Lunbeck, Elizabeth (1953-....)
Titre(s) : The Americanization of narcissism [Texte imprimé] / Elizabeth Lunbeck
Publication : Cambridge (Mass.) : Harvard university press, 2014
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (367 p.) ; 24 cm
Comprend : Part I. Narcissism in the me decade : The culture of narcissism ; Heinz Kohut's
American Freud ; Otto Kernberg's narcissistic dystopia ; Part II. Dimensions of
narcissism from Freud to the me decade and beyond : Self-love ; Independence ; Vanity
; Gratification ; Inaccessibility ; Identity ; Conclusion : Narcissism today.
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. p. 276-351. Index
"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 émigré 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." -- Publisher's
description
Sujet(s) : Narcissisme
Psychanalyse -- États-Unis
Psychanalyse et culture -- États-Unis
Valeurs sociales -- États-Unis -- 1970-....
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780674724860. - ISBN 0674724860. - ISBN 0674726146 (electronic bk.). - ISBN
9780674726147 (electronic bk.) (rel.)
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