| Description |
1 online resource (x, 231 pages) : portraits |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-225) and index. |
| Contents |
COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE Narcissism and the autonomy of the ego; CHAPTER TWO "I-not-I": narcissism beyond the one and the other; CHAPTER THREE Tracing the origins, centring on selves: reading Kohut and Kernberg from a developmental perspective; CHAPTER FOUR From narcissism to mutual recognition: the "mothering" support within the intersubjective dialectic; CHAPTER FIVE Narcissism, primal seduction and the psychoanalytic search for a good life. |
| Summary |
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 nar. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Narcissism.
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Narcissism. |
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Narcissism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Gaitanidis, Anastasios.
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Curk, Polona.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Narcissism. London : Karnac, 2007 9781855754539 (OCoLC)84151746 |
| ISBN |
9781849405706 (electronic book) |
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1849405700 (electronic book) |
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1283069342 |
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9781283069342 |
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9781855754539 |
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1855754533 |
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