book review

The Americanization of Narcissism by Elizabeth Lunbeck
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I would have given it 4 stars after I first finished it, but the aftertaste has moved me down to three stars. I see this book as mostly a critique of a small group of people who believe narcissism was a certain way, mainly weak and dependent. She uses Kohut and Kernberg to argue that Narcissism is more grandiosity and individualism than previously understood. The author is writing about the popular cultural understanding of narcissism and how that affects society, but it is hard to not want to make her view of narcissism just a tad more complex.


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