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Author Lasch, Christopher.

Title The Minimal Self : Psychic Survival in Troubled Times / Christopher Lasch
Edition First edition
Published New York : N.W. Norton, 1984
1984

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Description 317 pages
Contents 1. Introduction: consumption, narcissism, and mass culture -- 2. The survival mentality --3. The discourse on mass death: "lessons" of the holocaust -- 4. The minimalist aesthetic: art and literature in an age of extremity -- 5. The inner history of selfhood -- 6. The politics of the psyche -- 7. The ideological assault of the ego
Analysis Self - Psychological perspectives
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Human ecology.
Self.
Social values.
LC no. 84004103
ISBN 0393019225