Sentences with phrase «culture of narcissism»

We need to set the claims of the Kingdom over against the culture of narcissism.

Against liberal claims that it is only economic factors and not fluid family forms that predict child out - comes, they come down firmly against the culture of narcissism and sexual freedom.

For many, Lasch was above all the author of The Culture of Narcissism (1979), an unrelenting indictment of contemporary society.

Current social history and psychology call narcissism the primary characteristic of this age (see Christopher Lasch's The Culture of Narcissism and Shirley Sugerman's Sin and Madness: Studies in Narcissism).

Writing in Forum Letter, a Lutheran publication, he says the religion is variously named New Age, the Culture of Narcissism, Neo-Paganism, or Neo-Gnosticism.

The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations.

In the words of Christopher Lasch, «the culture of competitive individualism with its focus on external achievement has been replaced by The Culture of Narcissism with its focus on internal accomplishment.»

This is what Christopher Lasch called the culture of narcissism in its most concentrated form.

My assessment is that the wider disorientation of Western society, the decreasing respect for many institutions and the disdain for humans alongside what Christopher Lasch has termed a «culture of narcissism» has played out both among the «spiritual but not religious» identifiers as well as among many «new atheists.»

And yet this is the first popular book on the topic since Christopher Lasch's 1979 bestseller, The Culture of Narcissism (a book still very much worth reading, in spite of its somewhat anachronistic theoretical framework, which draws heavily on Freudian psychoanalysis).

Not exact matches

Out of this comes narcissism, heroics (both false and real), and many artefacts of contemporary culture and life.»

There is little need for another novel satirizing the narcissism and superficiality of our celebrity - obsessed culture, but what distinguishes Beha's book is the insight that modern people, now deprived of being the apple of God's eye, must create elaborate and dramatic false idols to satisfy the human need to know that someone, anyone, is taking stock of their lives, however contrived and superficial they may be.

Like students of those other years, they remain somewhat aloof from established cultural norms and ideas, while putting more energy into «tending their own garden,» but they are less wrapped up in the narcissism of the youth culture.

Citing carefully filtered sources (among them, the musings of reality TV stars and some 16 - year - olds posting on a site called iWannaBeFamous.com), she draws the inevitable conclusion that as a culture we're drowning in a sea of narcissism:

The study, «Narcissism and Social Media Use: A Meta - Analytic Review,» was published in the early online edition of Psychology of Popular Media Culture and is available online.

The study, «Narcissism and Social Media Use: A Meta - Analytic Review,» was published in the early online edition of Psychology of Popular Media Culture and is available at http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/2016-54178-001/.

July 12, 2016 • Shankar talks with psychologist Jean Twenge about narcissism, millennials, and the rise of «me» culture.

Five years later, after all the dust has settled, what's left is a deeply strange, occasionally unsuccessful, yet never uninteresting examination of narcissism in a celebrity - obsessed culture.

Mendelsohn has written an allegory about the precarious state of the American teenager in a culture that sucks the life force out of its young, who are nurtured by movies and fantasy and narcissism rather than by values such as honesty or love.

Facebook is a mirror and Twitter is a megaphone, according to a new University of Michigan study exploring how social media reflect and amplify the culture's growing levels of narcissism.

This essay focuses on manifestations of narcissism in recent art that considers the construction and performance of identity in American culture.

More than that, artists exploring identity have done much to displace the role of the individual: far from confirming narcissism, the idea that identities are culturally constructed, relative and discursive, would seem to have much more to do with them looking at the broader world of visual culture.

After this anecdote, Mohr digressed into a lengthy speech loosely centered on California, mentioning a disparate range of cultural figures and ideas that included Franz Kafka, Sigmund Freud, adolescence, the culture industry, sadomasochism, music, William S. Burroughs, Walter Benjamin, Mickey Mouse, National Socialism, occultism, imposture, and narcissism — to name a few.

Narcissism has flourished in Western culture in recent years as witness the long - time success of ridiculously debased reality television and its «stars».