LEADER 03949nam 2200637 450 001 9910819123003321 005 20230126211915.0 010 $a0-674-72713-4 010 $a0-674-72614-6 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674726147 035 $a(CKB)3710000000089427 035 $a(EBL)3301389 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001133352 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11702139 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001133352 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11156958 035 $a(PQKB)10477611 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301389 035 $a(DE-B1597)213454 035 $a(OCoLC)871257794 035 $a(OCoLC)979753117 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674726147 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301389 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10839477 035 $a(OCoLC)923120368 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000089427 100 $a20140228h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Americanization of narcissism /$fElizabeth Lunbeck 210 1$aCambridge, Massachusetts ;$aLondon, England :$cHarvard University Press,$d2014. 210 4$d©2014 215 $a1 online resource (384 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-674-72486-0 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tINTRODUCTION --$tPART I. NARCISSISM IN THE ME DECADE --$tONE. THE CULTURE OF NARCISSISM --$tTWO. HEINZ KOHUT'S AMERICAN FREUD --$tTHREE. OTTO KERNBERG'S NARCISSISTIC DYSTOPIA --$tPART II. DIMENSIONS OF NARCISSISM FROM FREUD TO THE ME DECADE AND BEYOND --$tFOUR. SELF - LOVE --$tFIVE. INDEPENDENCE --$tSIX. VANITY --$tSEVEN. GRATIFICATION --$tEIGHT. INACCESSIBILITY --$tNINE. IDENTITY --$tCONCLUSION: NARCISSISM TODAY --$tABBREVIATIONS --$tNOTES --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tINDEX 330 $aAmerican social critics in the 1970's, 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. 606 $aNarcissism$zUnited States 606 $aSocial values$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions 607 $aUnited States$xSocial life and customs 615 0$aNarcissism 615 0$aSocial values 676 $a158.2 686 $aYH 7300$2rvk 700 $aLunbeck$b Elizabeth$0845935 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819123003321 996 $aThe Americanization of narcissism$94107629 997 $aUNINA