Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Narcissism in Full Bloom -- 2 Dreams of Glory and Narcissistic Rage -- 3 Great Expectations -- 4 Daughters of Destiny I: Indira Gandhi -- 5 Daughters of Destiny II: Benazir Bhutto -- 6 Narcissism and the Charismatic Leader-Follower Relationship -- 7 Selfobjects: The Special Role of Wives and the Inner Circle -- 8 Narcissism, Entitlement, Sex, and Power -- 9 An Exceptional Exception: The Rise and Fall of Italy's Silvio Berlusconi -- 10 Phallic Narcissism in the Governor's Mansion -- 11 The Impact of Illness and Age on Narcissistic Leaders -- 12 Seeking Immortality: Dictators and Their Progeny -- 13 Leaders by Default: Second-Choice Sons -- Concluding Note -- Bibliography -- Index.
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"Narcissism and Its Discontents challenges the received wisdom that narcissism is only destructive of good social relations. By building on insights from psychoanalysis and critical theory it puts forward a theorisation of narcissistic sociability which redeems Narcissus from his position as the subject of negative critique. Following a close engagement with Sigmund Freud's 1914 paper 'On Narcissism: An Introduction', two further critical moments are considered: first, the mobilisation of narcissism in Anglo-American cultural discourse of the 1970s to 1990s where the term functioned as a descriptor for cultural malaise; and second, the discursive shift from narcissism to melancholia associated with more contemporary critical theory. This book pays particular attention to the paradoxical relation between the narcissist and the social world, identifying in Narcissus a figure whose turning away extends a call to others, and who finds in the vulnerabilities of the self the makings of the social scene"--
The subject of this article is the concepts, method and cultural theses contained in the article by Orekhovsky P.A., Razumov V.I. "The Onset of Narcissistic Culture: Consequences for Education, Science, Politics", published in the 13th volume of the journal "Ideas and Ideals" (No. 3, Part 1, 2021). The authors' arbitrary use of the basic concepts of 'high' culture and 'narcissistic' culture is shown. The philosophical methodology in the article is basically absent and replaced by a kind of 'cultural method', the essence of which is similar to a postmodern game of concepts, where everything is connected with everything and can be explained as the author pleases. The main statements of the authors are subjected to critical analysis, namely: 1) the criterion of 'high' culture is recognition by the majority of humanity; 2) the mass culture of the twentieth century, contrary to the criticism of philosophers, is a high culture; 3) organization of life and leisure in an industrial capitalist society is an example of a rational organization of life; 4) the service of the spiritual production institutions to the people is an ordinary, banal factor of mass culture in general (including Western); 5) in modern culture there has been an 'epochal shift' towards social narcissism; 6) individualism in entrepreneurship, the destruction of classical standards of hierarchy and discipline in education, the transformation of politics into a theater with the support of the 'silent majority' and the absence of protest moods, the popularity of a healthy lifestyle are signs of an inevitably narcissistic culture; 7) 'cultural (or social) narcissism' can be 'healthy'. In conclusion, the thesis is substantiated that a more accurate psychoanalytic definition of the social trends of modern culture will not be narcissism, but necrophilia, which manifests itself in the preference of the dead, soulless and mechanistic, orderly - to all living, rampantly growing, disordered and uncontrolled.
In his work in critical theory, Jurgen Habermas both follows Hans-Georg Gadamer in emphasizing intersubjective recognition, & goes beyond him by integrating psychoanalysis & analysis of social systems into a critique of ideology. Intersubjective recognition's role in his thought is explored through an examination of his earlier work on psychoanalysis, & of certain relevant issues in psychoanalysis. A recent development in psychoanalysis has been the appearance of a new type of patient, the narcissist. The crucial features of narcissism almost all undermine the possibility of intersubjective recognition. It is easy to integrate the concept of narcissism into Habermas's theory by recognizing the social conditions that generate this particular pathology, which are characteristic of advanced capitalism. A revival of the psychoanalytic dimension of Habermas's ideas would thus be productive & would enrich his thought. W. H. Stoddard
