Distinction between pathological narcissism and healthy narcissism. Elizabeth Lunbeck mentions the work of psychoanalysts Heinz Kohut and Otto Kernberg and compares it to sociologist Daniel Bell. American social critics in the 1970s 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, but as Lunbeck reveals, the American critics missed altogether the breakthrough in psychoanalytic thinking that was championing narcissisms positive aspects. Unpacking narcissisms rich and complex history opens a new view on the central questions faced by the self struggling amid the tumultuous crosscurrents of modernity. A bit cerebral 3-min video. It is interesting... What if there were similarly positive aspects of borderline? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Kohut en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_F._Kernberg en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Bell https://youtube/watch?v=RFWdV8f521E
Posted on: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 17:04:02 +0000
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