The Minimal Self: Psychic Survival in Troubled Times Book

"A culture organized around mass consumption encourages narcissism' which we can define, for the moment, as a disposition to see the world as a mirror, more particularly as a projection of one's own fears and desires' not because it makes people grasping and self-assertive but because it makes them weak and dependent."

"In real life, as opposed to pluralist fantasy, every moral and cultural choice of any consequence rules out a whole series of other choices. In an age of images and ideology, however, the difference between reality and fantasy becomes increasingly elusive."

I also read the author's "The Culture of Narcissism" which was released before this volume. Here he describes the world and the culture of the 70's and many of the attitudes and trends that are still with us. It was an era in which I went through high school and university.

BlackOxford wrote a great review of this book, just this year, that I cannot improve on in the least....



What Lasch anticipated come to fruition in Trump....