The Culture of Narcissism Author:Christopher Lasch Contents: The awareness movement and the social invasion of the self; The narcissistic personality of our time; Changing modes of making it: from Horatio Alger to the happy hooker; The banality of pseudo-self-awareness: theatrics of politics and everyday existence; The degradation of sport; Schooling and the new illiteracy; The socialization of ... more »reproduction and the collapse of authority; The flight from feeling: sociopsychology of the sex war; The shattered faith in the regeneration of life; Paternalism without father« less