The Culture of Narcissism
Christopher Lasch
This early example of the American jeremiad returns us to 1979, the “me decade,” and a time when Freud was taken seriously as having something to say about human psychology. Lasch’s psychoanalysis of the culture, putting an entire zeitgeist on the couch and asking it how it feels about its mother (answer: not good) has dated badly, and is unsupported by any real evidence, but nevertheless makes a handful of interesting general points, some of which have gained in salience over the past thirty years. One of those books you certainly don’t want to read all of, but that you should be familiar with nevertheless.
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