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The Culture of Narcissism
book by Christopher Lasch
The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations (), by Christopher Lasch, is a psychological and cultural, artistic and historical synthesis that explores the roots and ramifications of the normalization of pathological narcissism in 20th-century American culture.[1] For the mass-market edition published in September of the same year,[1] Lasch won the US National Book Award in the category Current Interest (paperback).[2][a]
Summary
Lasch proposes that since World War II, America has produced a personality-type consistent with clinical definitions of "pathological narcissism".
This pathology is not akin to everyday narcissism, a hedonistic egoism, but with clinical diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder. For Lasch, "pathology represents a heightened version of normality."[3] He locates symptoms of this personality disorder in the r