The Americanization of Narcissism

The Americanization of Narcissism
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 384
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ISBN-10 : 9780674727137
ISBN-13 : 0674727134
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Book Synopsis The Americanization of Narcissism by : Elizabeth Lunbeck

Download or read book The Americanization of Narcissism written by Elizabeth Lunbeck and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American social critics in the 1970s seized on narcissism as the sickness of the age. But they missed the psychoanalytic breakthrough that championed it as the wellspring of ambition, creativity, and empathy. Elizabeth Lunbeck's history opens a new view on the central questions faced by the self struggling amid the crosscurrents of modernity.


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