The Minimal Self: Psychic Survival in Troubled Times - Self-Help Book for Mental Wellness, Personal Growth & Resilience in Modern Life" （如果原始标题是中文，假设为："极简自我：动荡时期的心理生存指南" 优化后为：） "Minimal Self: Guide to Psychic Survival in Troubled Times - Self-Help Book for Mental Wellness, Personal Growth & Resilience in Modern Life
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"Even more valuable than its widely praised predecessor, The Culture of Narcissism." ―John W. Aldridge Faced with an escalating arms race, rising crime and terrorism, environmental deterioration, and long-term economic decline, people have retreated from commitments that presuppose a secure and orderly world. In his latest book, Christopher Lasch, the renowned historian and social critic, powerfully argues that self-concern, so characteristic of our time, has become a search for psychic survival.
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While I find there is much to reject in Lasch's attempt to explain 70s and 80s politics in terms of psychoanalytic schools of thought, one learns so much about the crisis of the new left as Fordism faded away. Furthermore, one could do much, much worse than Lasch for an intellectual history of Freudian and post-Freudian thought specifically on narcissism. Lastly this book makes Lasch's most famous work, Culture of Narcissism, more theoretically robust
