Word: narcissus
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Lasch claims that two basic personality types. Narcissus and Prometheus, are prototypical in Modern society. Both are variants of the lower-case narcissistic self, which is unable to accept its postnatal existence separate from nature. Narcissisus continually seeks to rejoin nature, while Prometheus tries to impose his infantile fantasies of omnipotence on it. So far so good...
...this observation immediately plunges Lasch into the difficult work of splitting infantile hairs. While the author agrees with scientists and industrialists that control over nature is a good thing, and with environmentalists that nature must be preserved (these two groups being loosely identified with Prometheus and Narcissus), he wants their actions to be motivated more by reality than by infantile fantasy. Lasch evidently fears right actions performed for the wrong reasons more than he fears wrong actions or their consequences. Psychologically, one supposes, this is typical and perhaps sound. However, from a practical, political, on ethical point of view...
...press has become as fascinated with itself as Narcissus, but with a difference. It studies its own reflection not out of moody self-love, but with the gloomy recognition that it has lost credibility with the public. A candid new critique, written by Charles W. Bailey, a reporter and editor on the Minneapolis Tribune for more than 30 years, finds a welcome decline in the blatant freeloading habits of the press: fewer fashion editors get their clothes wholesale, fewer sportswriters ride free on team planes. Bailey, now the Washington editor of National Public Radio, wrote his critique for the National...
Some 10 wealthy passengers have each paid $15,000 for a 10-day cruise through the Mediterranean aboard the Narcissus. The luxurious ship provides both musical and gastronomical delights. A virtuoso pianist and a renowned diva perform nightly to passengers who dine on gourmet food and turn adulterous in the moonlight. Indeed, affair after affair develops among the passengers...
Black said he expects the College Night at Narcissus, a club next door to Lipstick in Kenmore Square, will draw more people to the Harvard event. "I hope that people will combine the two," he added...