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.
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Introduction 1. On the Introduction of Narcissism to Psychoanalytic Theory: 1914 and its Consequences 2. Socialising Narcissus via the Case of ‘Little Hans’ 3. Sociology 1: On the Narcissism of Nostalgia 4. Sociology 2: Cultural Narcissism, Some Examples from Anglo-American Sociology 5. ‘Exceptional’ Woman and Exemplary Sociability: The Figure of the Narquette 6. From Narcissism to Melancholia, and Back Again…
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Julie Walsh is an Institute of Advanced Study Global Research Fellow in the department of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK.
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