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| Author | Christopher Lasch |
|---|---|
| Full Title | The Culture of Narcissism |
| Binding | Softcover |
| Publisher | W.W. Norton & Co. (1991) |
| Pages | 304 |
| ISBN | 9780393307382 |
| Language | English |
| Short Description | When The Culture of Narcissism was first published, it was clear that Christopher Lasch had identified something important: what was happening to American society in the wake of the decline of the family over the last century. The book quickly became a bestseller. This edition includes a new afterword, 'The Culture of Narcissim Revisited'. |
| Table of Contents | Preface Acknowledgments I The Awareness Movement and the Social Invasion of the Self The Waning of the Sense of Historical Time The Therapeutic Sensibility From Politics to Self-Examination Confession and Anticonfession The Void Within The Progressive Critique of Privatism The Critique of Privatism: Richard Sennett on the Fall of Public Man II The Narcissistic Personality of Our Time Narcissism as a Metaphor of the Human Condition Psychology and Sociology Narcissism in Recent Clinical Literature Social Influences on Narcissism The World View of the Resigned III Changing Modes of Making It: From Horatio Alger to the Happy Hooker The Original Meaning of the Work Ethic From "Self-Culture" to Self-Promotion through "Winning Images" The Eclipse of Achievement The Art of Social Survival The Apotheosis of Individualism IV The Banality of Pseudo-Self-Awareness: Theatrics of Politics and Everyday Existence The Propaganda of Commodities Truth and Credibility Advertising and Propaganda Politics as Spectacle Radicalism as Street Theater Hero Worship and Narcissistic Idealization Narcissism and the Theater of the Absurd The Theater of Everyday Life Ironic Detachment as an Escape from Routine No Exit V The Degradation of Sport The Spirit of Play versus the Rage for National Uplift Huizinga on Homo Ludens The Critique of Sport The Trivialization of Athletics Imperialism and the Cult of the Strenuous Life Corporate Loyalty and Competition Bureaucracy and "Teamwork" Sports and the Entertainment Industry Leisure as Escape VI Schooling and the New Illiteracy The Spread of Stupefaction The Atrophy of Competence Historical Origins of the Modern School System From Industrial Discipline to Manpower Selection From Americanization to "Life Adjustment" Basic Education versus National Defense Education The Civil Rights Movement and the Schools Cultural Pluralism and the New Paternalism The Rise of the Multiversity Cultural "Elitism" and Its Critics Education as a Commodity VII The Socialization of Reproduction and the Collapse of Authority The "Socialization of Workingmen" Parent Education Permissiveness Reconsidered The Cult of Authenticity Psychological Repercussions of the "Transfer of Functions" Narcissism, Schizophrenia, and the Family Narcissism and the "Absent Father" The Abdication of Authority and the Transformation of the Superego The Family's Relation to Other Agencies of Social Control Human Relations on the Job: The Factory as a Family VIII The Flight from Feeling: Sociopsychology of the Sex War The Trivialization of Personal Relations The Battle of the Sexes: Its Social History The Sexual "Revolution" Togetherness Feminism and the Intensification of Sexual Warfare Strategies of Accommodation The Castrating Woman of Male Fantasy The Soul of Man and Woman under Socialism IX The Shattered Faith in the Regeneration of Life The Dread of Old Age Narcissism and Old Age The Social Theory of Aging: "Growth" as Planned Obsolescence Prolongevity: The Biological Theory of Aging X Paternalism Without Father The New Rich and the Old The Managerial and Professional Elite as a Ruling Class Progressivism and the Rise of the New Paternalism Liberal Criticism of the Welfare State Bureaucratic Dependence and Narcissism The Conservative Critique of Bureaucracy Afterword: The Culture of Narcissism Revisited Notes Index |
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