Narcissism : A Critical Reader (Paperback)

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