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...Minimal Self, Christopher Lasch's book of all-over-the-page analysis and erudite grumbling, represents one such discrepancy. A sociologist by profession. Lasch made his reputation several years ago with The Culture of Narcissism. In that book as in this, he tries to explain modern life by generalizing from Freud's theories of personality to the condition of society as a whole. He argues that contemporary culture fosters narcissistic personalities. The discrepancy comes when Lasch, as a faithful son of Sigmund, attacks writers who do just what he is doing Criticizing Herbert Marcuse, a noted re-interpreter of psychoanalytic...
...everyone is caught up in the buoyant mood, of course. Social Historian Christopher Lasch dismisses the phenomenon as gassy and unreal. "There seems to be a concerted effort in the media," Lasch says, "to present this view of a vast improvement in the public morale. But I doubt that it's much more than an emerging consensus in the media." Farmer Ron Nelson of Columbus, Kans., harbors a similar skepticism. "I have a wait-and-see attitude," he says. "It's easy to see flag waving during the Olympics, with all those medals and all. Patriotism was promoted...
...London and New York at the present times is an exciting new play. Tom Stoppard's The Real thing. The play casts a weary and jaundiced eye (much as John and Ru Selle would have done) at a world preoccupied with lust. materialism sensation, and self gratification Christopher Lasch in , The Cultone of Narcissism published in 1978, talks about the same theme...
...Freedom in an Unfree World. That globulous body of quasi knowledge could only be critiqued by another title: The Culture of Narcissism. In his savage 1978 indictment of changing attitudes, Social Historian Christopher Lasch wrote: "Plagued by anxiety, depression, vague discontents, a sense of inner emptiness, [they] seek neither individual self-aggrandizement nor spiritual transcendence, but peace of mind." The boomers have acquired pinstripes and purchased their entry into the American mainstream. But their search for laid-back pleasure does help define the present lust for fitness...
...their own rewards gave way to a notion, held fervently and misguidedly by some, that the "self and the realization of its full "potential" were all-important pursuits. This phenomenon was ridiculed as the "me" decade by Writer Tom Wolfe and the "culture of narcissism" by Social Critic Christopher Lasch...