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The AMERICANIZATION of NARCISSISM T h e AMERICA N IZ ATI ON o f NARCISSISM Elizabeth Lunbeck Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England 2014 Copyright © 2014 by Elizabeth Lunbeck All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-i n- Publication Data Lunbeck, Elizabeth. The Americanization of narcissism / Elizabeth Lunbeck. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978- 0-6 74- 72486- 0 1. Narcissism— United States. 2. United States— Social conditions. 3. United States— Social life and customs. 4. Social values— United States. I. Title. BF575.N35L86 2014 158.2—dc23 2013034742 To the memory of John W. Cell 1935–2001 First and best teacher CONTENTS Introduction 1 I. Narcissism in the Me Dec ade 9 1. The Culture of Narcissism 11 2. Heinz Kohut’s American Freud 37 3. Otto Kernberg’s Narcissistic Dystopia 59 II. Dimensions of Narcissism from Freud to the Me Decade and Beyond 81 4. Self-L ove 83 5. In de pen dence 113 6. Vanity 138 7. Gratifi cation 165 8. Inaccessibility 202 9. Identity 224 Conclusion: Narcissism Today 252 Abbreviations 273 Notes 276 Ac know ledg ments 352 Index 355 The AMERICANIZATION of NARCISSISM
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