TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lasch, Christopher
TI  - The Culture of narcissism: American life in an age of diminishing expectations 
SN  - 393011771
AV  - HN 65 .L37 1978 
PY  - 1978///
CY  - New York
PB  - W W Norton & Company Inc.
KW  - SOCIAL VALUES
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 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
N2  - Argues that American society has become increasingly self-absorbed, focused on self-gratification to the exclusion of higher values, and that the mass narcissism of the culture is based on fear
ER  -