Americanization of Narcissism

About the author

Elizabeth Lunbeck is Professor of the History of Science in Residence at Harvard University.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Lunbeck, Lunbeck Elizabeth
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.03.2014
• EAN: 9780674724860
• ISBN: 978-0-674-72486-0
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / Psychoanalysis, PSYCHOLOGY / History, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social, group or collective psychology, United States of America, USA, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, History of the Americas, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Movements