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Narcissism: A Critical Reader

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This book provides a comprehensive review of the existing perspectives and applications of narcissism as a psychoanalytic concept that has been extremely influential in the fields of psychotherapy, social science, arts and humanities. Ten authors from different disciplines have been invited to write on the topic of narcissism as it is approached in their specialist field, resulting in an exciting and inclusive overview of contemporary thought on narcissism. This book is also a critical reader. Each author closely examined and analysed the possibilities and limitations of different views on narcissism. It is thus a very useful book both for students and experts who look for a deeper and broader understanding of the notion of 'narcissism' and its various psychotherapeutic, social and cultural applications.

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ISBN-13:	9781855754539
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/01/2007
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

Introduction — Narcissism and the autonomy of the ego — “I-not-I”: narcissism beyond the one and the other — Tracing the origins, centring on selves: reading Kohut and Kernberg from a developmental perspective — From narcissism to mutual recognition: the “mothering” support within the intersubjective dialectic — Narcissism, primal seduction and the psychoanalytic search for a good life — Narcissistic wounds, race and racism: a comment on Frantz Fanon’s critical engagement with psychoanalysis — The culture(s) of narcissism: simultaneity and the psychedelic sixties — The psychoanalytic framing of the art object as narcissistc agency — Narcissism, individuation and old age — “I’m not in my own skin. I want to be in my own skin”: revaluing fragmentation and narcissism

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Narcissim is much abused for good and ill in current psychoanalytic theory and practice. This book is thus very timely in bringing together articles developing measured critical debates about this topic, focusing specifically on narcissism and love.

Janet Sayers

This book provides an ideal introduction both to the diverse ways in which narcissism is approached in clinical work, and to the complex interaction between clinical work and the broad cultural elaborations of narcissism. Gaitanidis and his Assistant Editor Curk cogently locate all the papers within the parameters of the wider contemporary debate on narcissism, and the book must be central reading both for the counseling and psychotherapy trainees, and cultural and social studies students.

Martin Stanton

Dr. Gaitanidis and his Assistant Editor Curk present us with a fresh re-evaluation of the venerable subject of narcissism in this most interesting and diverse edited work. After a faithful review of the psychoanalytic conception of narcissism, the various other contributors tease apart the narcissistic object-relations experience as it pertains in the individual, in coupling, in the community, in art and in other general areas and disciplines. This is a singular work. I do not recall the subject of narcissism having ever before been dealt with so broadly, so extensively and so deeply.

James Grotstein

"This collection of articles by psychologists, metal-health experts, and the like is especially welcome for reviving the subject of narcissism... The specificity of someo f the chapters with the breadth of them all together adds much new to the topic of narcissism while inherently demonstrating its continuing relevance as a key to understanding contemporary, postmodern, culture."

The Midwest Book Review

"This collection of articles by psychologists, metal-health experts, and the like is especially welcome for reviving the subject of narcissism... The specificity of someo f the chapters with the breadth of them all together adds much new to the topic of narcissism while inherently demonstrating its continuing relevance as a key to understanding contemporary, postmodern, culture."
“Dr. Gaitanidis and his Assistant Editor Curk present us with a fresh re-evaluation of the venerable subject of narcissism in this most interesting and diverse edited work. After a faithful review of the psychoanalytic conception of narcissism, the various other contributors tease apart the narcissistic object-relations experience as it pertains in the individual, in coupling, in the community, in art and in other general areas and disciplines. This is a singular work. I do not recall the subject of narcissism having ever before been dealt with so broadly, so extensively and so deeply.”
“This book provides an ideal introduction both to the diverse ways in which narcissism is approached in clinical work, and to the complex interaction between clinical work and the broad cultural elaborations of narcissism. Gaitanidis and his Assistant Editor Curk cogently locate all the papers within the parameters of the wider contemporary debate on narcissism, and the book must be central reading both for the counseling and psychotherapy trainees, and cultural and social studies students.”
“Narcissim is much abused for good and ill in current psychoanalytic theory and practice. This book is thus very timely in bringing together articles developing measured critical debates about this topic, focusing specifically on narcissism and love.

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