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The Culture of Narcissism
... Studies such as those by Shejet (2023), Iñaki Piñuel (2008) and Vicente Garrido (2000) highlight that psychopathy is prevalent in our societies in fields such as politics, media and the economy. There are social analyses of psychopathy, such as those by Lasch (1979), Sennett (1980), Lipovetsky (1983Lipovetsky ( , 1990, Bauman (2007) and Grapsas (2022), that link it, along with narcissism, to the capitalist system (Miller et al., 2017). According to Lipovetsky, the myth of "Narcissus" and its conceptualisation are the most precise symbols of the individuality born in this era, which he terms "hypermodernity", focused on emotional fulfilment, a constant yearning for youth, consumption, sport as a value, the need for movement, etc. Lipovetsky argues that we are witnessing a shift in subjective interests characterised by a lack of concern for values and institutions previously considered solid, such as family and religion. ...
... Works such as Generation of Narcissus (Malcolm, 1971), Le Narcissisme (Grunberger, 1971), Los narcisos: el radicalismo cultural de los jóvenes (De Miguel, 1979) and La cultura del yo (Béjar, 1993) emerged during this period, deeply exploring this phenomenon from diverse perspectives. According to Lasch (1979), each era gives rise to its own particular form of pathology, and narcissism would epitomise our current era, influenced once again by the values of the economic system in which we live. Authors like Jauregui (2018) argue that psychopathy is inherent to modernity and its "values", where it has become the paradigm of success and power. ...
... This behaviour aligns with the "mask" model, a concept derived from clinical observations in which narcissistic individuals project a grandiose exterior while harbouring deep-seated feelings of threat, inferiority, weakness and fragility. Lasch (1979) posits that the constant pursuit of attention by narcissistic psychopaths prevents them from succumbing to their underlying sense of emptiness. This emptiness stems from a profound loss of identity; contrary to their outward portrayal, narcissists suffer from a chronic lack of self-love (Edershile, 2021). ...
This article addresses the issue of narcissistic abuse within romantic relationships in which one partner is an integrated psychopath. The study focuses on heterosexual couples in which the psychopath is the male partner. Specifically, it seeks to explain what this abuse entails and its characteristics, and then outline its consequences. Firstly, we explain what psy-chopathy is. Secondly, we provide a detailed description of narcissistic abuse and its phases: love bombing, devaluation, discard and hoovering. To achieve our objective, we present an analysis of interviews with twenty women who claim to have been in a relationship with an integrated psychopath, a fact corroborated by their therapists. As a methodological tool for data analysis, we employed Grounded Theory, generating theory based on the analysis of the women's discourse rather than from pre-existing hypotheses. Some conclusions relate to the establishment of a previously unknown pattern of violence and abuse linked to psy-chopathy and narcissism. This type of abuse results in a significant emotional impact on the partners and ex-partners of narcissistic psychopaths.
... This deeper emotional experience tends to give high narcissism a harsher jolt. It is entirely possible that this shock will go further and affect the core self-evaluation of the individual (Lasch, 2019). Moreover, we must acknowledge that in real life, it is not only the frustrating situation that may cause an individual frustration, but also the competitive activity itself that may cause frustration. ...
... sm tend to choose tasks that are less difficult or do not require cooperation, so as to avoid not only failure and negative evaluation, but also interaction with others, and completely avoid the content of interpersonal trust. Perhaps for this reason, covert narcissism did not show significant predictive effect on interpersonal trust in this study (Lasch. 2019;Symington. 2018). ...
... Nacían entonces obras como Generation of Narcissus (Malcom,1971), Le Narcissisme (Grunberger, 1971), Los narcisos: el radicalismo cultural de los jóvenes (De Miguel, 1979) o La cultura del yo (Béjar, 1993), que se dedicaban en profundidad al estudio de este fenómeno desde distintas perspectivas. Según Lasch (1979), cada época da lugar a su forma particular de patología y el narcisismo sería la máxima representante de la nuestra, fruto, de nuevo, de los valores del sistema económico en el que nos movemos. Así, autoras como Jauregui (2018) afirman que la psicopatía es consustancial a la modernidad y a sus «valores», convirtiéndose esta en el modelo de éxito y poder. ...
... Comúnmente esto se conoce como el modelo de «máscara»; una descripción nacida de las observaciones clínicas de que los individuos narcisistas se esfuerzan por mantener un exterior grandioso cuando en el fondo se sienten amenazados, inferiores, débiles y/o frágiles. Es precisamente, según Lasch (1979), la obtención de esas atenciones que demanda contantemente el psicópata narcisista las que hacen que este no caiga en el vacío que siente. Vacío fundamentado en una pérdida de identidad total, ya que el narcisista lejos de tener una saludable autoestima como pretende mostrar, padece de una falta crónica de amor propio (Edershile, 2021). ...
Este artículo aborda la cuestión del abuso narcisista dentro de las relaciones de pareja en la que uno de los dos integrantes es psicópata integrado. El estudio se centra en parejas hete-rosexuales en las que el psicópata es el hombre. Concretamente buscamos explicar en qué consiste y cuáles son las características de tal abuso, para después plasmar cuáles son las consecuencias del mismo. En primer lugar, explicamos qué es la psicopatía y, en segundo, describimos detalladamente qué es el abuso narcisista y cuáles son sus fases (bombardeo de amor, devaluación, descarte y hoovering). Para la consecución de nuestro objetivo, se ex-pone el análisis de entrevistas a veinte mujeres que declaran haber estado en pareja con un psicópata integrado, hecho que ha sido corroborado por sus terapeutas. Como instrumento metodológico para llevar a cabo el análisis de datos hemos empleado la Teoría Fundamenta-da, dado que partimos del análisis del discurso de las mujeres para generar teoría y no de hi-pótesis previas. Algunas de las conclusiones obtenidas tienen que ver con el establecimiento de un, hasta ahora desconocido, patrón de violencia y maltrato vinculado a la psicopatía y al narcisismo. Maltrato que deriva en un alto impacto emocional que tienen este tipo de rela-ciones de abuso en las parejas y exparejas de psicópatas narcisistas. PALABRAS CLAVE: bombardeo de amor; descarte; devaluación; hoovering; psicópatas integra-dos.
... Reich ([1934] 2012; see also Robinson, 1969) sought to reconcile Freud with Marx. Fromm (1941;Fromm & Maccoby, 1970) and Adorno, et al. (1950) forged theories of social character also influenced by Marxism (see also Lasch, 1979). 5 Erikson (1950) explored the dynamic interplay of unconscious libidinal forces, ego, and society. ...
... 8) to the withdrawal from politics, and from the voicing of political opinions, of those not socially authorized to speak politically. And Lareau (2003) explores how the less privileged become accustomed to being told "no," ever reminded of their limits. As mentioned above, unconscious anxieties help to inhibit the transgression of such limits. ...
This paper presents a new approach to theorizing and empirically investigating a phenomenon variously described by sociologists as internalized oppression or symbolic violence. Located at the intersection of internal worlds and external reality, the intrapsychic and the interpersonal and social, this object of inquiry—here termed self-negation—is crucial to many forms of societal domination. The paper explores its inner workings, analytically disaggregating it into an array of psychosocial processes drawn from the psychoanalytic theory of the defenses. Much of the work’s originality consists in showing how these processes operate across multiple systems of domination and drive many and varied outward manifestations of the phenomenon.
... Narsismi, narsistinen haavoittuvuus ja narsistiset häiriöt ovat olleet kiinnostuksen kohteena 1960-luvulta lähtien, jolloin psyykkisten ongelmien kirjon painopiste alkoi siirtyä sisäisten konfliktien leimaamista neuroottis-tai hysteerisluonteisista häiriöistä yksilön identiteettiä ja itsetuntoa koskeviin teemoihin. Uudenlaiset ongelmat ilmenivät muun muassa sisäisen onttouden ja tyhjyyden kokemuksina sekä henkilökohtaisten merkitysten muodostamisen vaikeuksina (Lasch, 1979). Myös Suomessa keskusteltiin 1980-luvun alussa narsismin kysymyksistä (Reenkola, 1981). ...
Arvioitu teos: Riitta Hyrck: Haavoittunut itsetunto. Ohut- ja paksunahkaisen narsistin häpeäkokemus. Therapeia-säätiö, 2018.
... The proponents argue that CAM practices tend to promote narcissism and individualism, which undermines civic responsibility and the common good (Furedi, 2004;Madsen, 2014). These practices erode the foundations of democracy and political citizenship by promoting withdrawal from politics and the public sphere and by replacing collective mobilisation against structural injustice with individualised projects of self-fulfilment and selfexamination (Cabanas and Illouz, 2019;Cloud, 1998;Lasch, 1992). Furthermore, the depoliticising effect of CAM has also been attributed to its intimate alignment with neoliberal values, which contribute to privatising social problems and cultivating self-governing and self-centred subjects interested in their own well-being and health, rather than in collective action to pursue political reforms (Binkley, 2011;Foster, 2015). ...
The increasing cultural prevalence and appeal of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) have raised concerns about its potential depoliticising effects. Due to its focus on the self, CAM is believed to cultivate individualism and orient transformative energies towards self-improvement rather than the collective struggle for social justice. However, despite these concerns, few quantitative studies have examined CAM from the perspective of the depoliticisation thesis. This article aims to address this gap by studying the association between political participation and CAM with data from the European Social Survey (ESS). These data enable us to capture a diverse range of CAM practices and to scrutinise both institutionalised forms of political participation, such as voting, and non-institutionalised participation taking place in civil society. Contrary to the depoliticisation thesis, our results show that CAM users either engage more actively in voting or do not significantly differ in their voting behaviour compared to non-users, depending on the specific CAM modalities considered. Moreover, CAM users participate more actively in non-institutionalised activities than non-users across all types of CAM modalities. This article offers valuable insights into the relationship between CAM and political engagement and challenges prevailing assumptions about the depoliticising effects of CAM.
... Like narcissists, psychopaths lack empathy and regard other people as mere instruments of gratification and utility or as objects to be manipulated [18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]. Psychopaths and narcissists have no problem to grasp ideas and to formulate choices, needs, preferences, courses of action, and priorities. ...
The covert psychopath is a compensatory mode of psychopathy, reactive to a state of collapse (inefficacy in obtaining goals). An avalanche of misinformation online by self-styled "experts" muddied the waters and the differential diagnoses between Narcissistic and Antisocial Personality Disorders. Though both types are possessed only of cold empathy, the psychopath is goal-oriented: money, sex, power, social positioning, celebrity. He is relentless, scheming, calculated, ruthless, and callous in his pursuit of his agenda. In contrast, the narcissist wants only one thing: narcissistic supply to buttress the grandiose fantasies that underlie his false self. Psychopaths do not fantasize - they act. The narcissist is pro-social: he works with others because people are the only sources of narcissistic supply. The psychopath is anti-social: his world is a Darwinian, dog eat dog, zero sum game (he wins, everyone else loses) Psychopaths do not hesitate to break the law: many of them are career criminals. Narcissists work within social institutions and subvert them, leverage existing laws in their favor, and create networks of affiliated patronage. Psychopaths like to inflict gratuitous pain and discomfort. They revel in other people's pain and embarrassment, even find these hilarious. Not so narcissists who cause harm off-handedly and only if they have to. As opposed to most narcissists, psychopaths are either unable or unwilling to control their impulses or to delay gratification. They use their rage to control people and manipulate them into submission. Psychopaths are far less able to form interpersonal relationships, even the twisted and tragic relationships that are the staple of the narcissist. They are mostly lone wolves.
... An emancipated wo/man, liberated from the bindings of his/er biology, employs technology to dominate nature, being at the same time rarely interested in critically assessing his/her own power (Adorno, & Horkheimer, 1944;McPhee, 1989;Agamben, 1998). It can be also easily observed how this effect has only been amplified by the development of the culture of narcissism underlying every individual empowerment (Lasch, 2018). The complexity of technological tools, which were put into mass use in the XX century, already exceeded the human ability to predict even the mid-terms effects of their application. ...
... China, representing nearly 20% of the global population, possesses a rich tapestry of cultural values and social structures. Traditional Chinese culture emphasizes collectivism over individualism (Cai et al., 2012;Hofstede & McCrae, 2004), a paradigm incongruent with narcissistic tendencies (Lasch, 1979). However, cross-country studies reveal that Chinese individuals exhibit relatively high levels of narcissism compared to their counterparts in 49 other nations (Jonason et al., 2020). ...
Three-factor models of narcissism (Agentic, Neurotic, and Antagonistic Narcissism) have gained widespread recognition in the field. The Five-Factor Narcissism Inventory (FFNI) stands out as the most comprehensive and only tool to date that assesses all three narcissism domains. However, its validation in Chinese culture and forensic contexts remains largely unexplored. With community (N = 578) and offender (N = 726) samples from China, we examined 60-, 30-, and 15-item versions of the Chinese FFNI in terms of internal structure, external associates, and consistency across samples and versions. Our findings demonstrate acceptable internal consistencies and structural validity of each version of the Chinese FFNI, albeit with minor deviations in the Neurotic Narcissism factor. The FFNI demonstrated good cross-sample and cross-version consistency. These results suggest the utility of the FFNI in Chinese samples and suggest some comparability across community and offender groups.
... Com a emergência do movimento New Age assistiu-se a um crescente interesse em práticas espirituais e formas de religiosidade para além dos modelos dominantes, como por exemplo no druidismo, xamanismo, espiritualidades orientais e práticas híbridas (Heelas, 1996). Apesar de existir uma crítica a estas formas de espiritualidade, entendidas enquanto formas de narcisismo, medicalização, comodificação e neoliberalização da religião (Barker, 2014;Carrette & King, 2005;Carvalho & Grácio, 2022;Lasch, 1979), também tem sido argumentado que algumas destas práticas podem fornecer pistas para uma ontologia crítica do sujeito (Foucault, 1984) permitindo a emergência de subjetividades não-modernas (Carvalho, 2021). As práticas promovidas pela tradição de Thich Nhat Hanh são influenciadas pela noção de InterSer, associada à realização da interpendência entre todas as entidades, o que em Pali se designa como paticca samuppada ou em português por originação dependente: "a realidade surge como um processo dinamicamente interdependente. ...
O que significa habitar um planeta em crise climática e ambiental? Este livro desenvolve uma abordagem ontológica para estudar o Antropoceno, uma época geológica proposta para ilustrar a indissociabilidade entre atividades humanas e fenómenos planetários como o aquecimento global. O livro resulta de um projeto de investigação que decorreu no Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra com o título “TROPO – Ontologias do Antropoceno em Portugal”. A abordagem ontológica analisa o(s)Antropoceno(s) a partir de diferentes respostas à crise climática e ambiental, incluindo o ativismo, políticas hegemónicas para a transição energética, a extração de lítio,tecnologias de manipulação climática ou até reconfigurações subjetivas e metodológicas para gerar articulações mais robustas entre agência humana e mais-do-que-humana.
... Justamente quando o discurso empreendedor se torna essencialmente ideológico e aplaca o interesse na realidade social da periferia ou da comunidade de origem, caso de Keila, é que ele mostra seu caráter francamente meritocrático, narcisista e potencialmente autodestrutivo. O empreendedorismo se revela então como o que é, um sintoma do sobrevivencialismo descrito por Lasch (1991). ...
O artigo investiga a consolidação de um empreendedorismo popular como identidade significativa nas periferias de São Paulo, resultado de experiências individuais associadas ao trabalho por conta própria. O texto é produto de etnografia conduzida na zona sul da cidade entre 2017 e 2021. Dois perfis de trabalhadores por conta própria são analisados: um caso de empreendedorismo “fraco”, em que o ethos empreendedor pouco articulado se conjuga com um modo de vida tradicional; e dois casos de empreendedorismo “forte”, em que seus protagonistas expressam o léxico característico do discurso empreendedor, porém com resultados diferentes segundo suas aspirações de distinção social. Para cada um dos três casos são analisadas as experiências em relação ao trabalho, a vida comunitária, a educação formal e não-formal e as perspectivas de mobilidade social, apontando para os fundamentos dessa nova identidade.
... In the current or postmodern era, young people would be led by others, and these "others" would be the means of consumption, a sort of being what one has and, at the same time, not knowing who one is. The biggest problem with being directed by the means of consumption is that these incessantly stimulate a greater consumption of ephemeral, obsolescent and transitory objects, which would be detrimental to the construction of a "firm floor" from which young people can situate themselves and face the world, thus remaining at the mercy of a changing internal and external world, a kind of presentist, unanchored and "seismographic" existence [17], which would affect the sense of historical continuity, the sense of belonging to a succession of generations (…), any firm concern for posterity" ( [18], p. 5). ...
The aim of this chapter is to show the possible relations between the particularities of our time and certain pathologies in mental health that our young people experience today. It is in adolescence that the various mental illnesses begin to manifest themselves and that to understand them properly, it is essential to include the historical, social and cultural particularities dominant at a given time, this chapter sets forth some of the current difficulties observed in young people that would hinder them from entering adulthood. This chapter will focus on the psychopathological manifestations and the concomitant subjective discomfort that would afflict the young person and make it difficult for them to successfully adapt to their environment. Specifically, we will review the most prevalent phenomenon that physicians may face in their clinical work with adolescents will be reviewed, namely, borderline personality disorder (BPD) and three of its most frequent manifestations: addictions, self-harm and eating disorders.
... However, the research that supports this conclusion has been based almost exclusively in WEIRD (i.e., White, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) community/convenience samples. Perhaps because of the emphasis on individualism in the West, narcissism as a psychological concept has attracted many Western researchers (Lasch, 1979). For the same reason, the nature of narcissism may be affected by cultural factors. ...
Objective: Associations between dimensions of narcissism and aggression have been well-documented in Western samples. We aimed to generalize findings regarding the validity of one-, two-(Grandiose Narcissism, GN, and Vulnerable Narcissism, VN), and three-factor models (Agentic Narcissism, Agent; Neurotic Narcissism, Neuro; Antagonistic Narcissism, Antag) of narcissism and associations with aggression to Chinese offender and nonoffender samples. Methods: Our preregistered study used exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and a novel methodological approach, relative weights analysis (RWA) in an offender (N = 485) and a community (N = 578) sample from China to examine the generalizability of narcissism dimensions, and within-study meta-analysis using 9 samples (N = 3520, and 282 effect sizes) to examine links between narcissism dimensions and aggression. Results: The two-factor model replicated well across samples and three-factor model replicated moderately, with differences emerging for the structure of Antag in offenders. Narcissism was positively correlated with aggression, although associations varied across narcissism dimensions and types of aggression. Conclusion: The dimensional models of narcissism and associations with aggression generalized fairly well from Western to Chinese offender and nonoffender populations, although some potential differences worthy of consideration in future research and practice were observed.
... Wszystko inne jest wymienne, zastępowalne. 190 9. Osamotnienie Jeszcze dalej w swoich przemyśleniach idzie Lasch (1980), opisując pokolenie końca XX wieku jako pokolenie narcystyczne, skupione na sobie, którego największym pragnieniem jest pomnażanie kręgu znajomych i przyjaciół, a bardziej precyzyjnie -wielbicieli. Współczesnemu narcyzowi już nie wystarczy po prostu przyjaźń, on pragnie całkowitego oddania drugiej osoby, bo tylko wtedy zyskuje pewność trwałości więzi. ...
It is based on many years of individual research. It presents research that shows that difficult experiences leave permanent traits on our psyche and our behavior, even if we have dealt with them, even if we have solved the problem.
... On both sides of the Atlantic, in this sanitized Schumacher tradition, there are light-touch references to 'the commons' invoking Karl Polanyi. But these are stripped of any real sociological understanding of the primary mechanism of modernization as centering on disembedding (Polanyi, 1944(Polanyi, , 1957a(Polanyi, , 1968(Polanyi, , 1971, disenchantment (Weber, 1978) social and spatial mobility (Bauman, 2000), the emergence of what Elias called the 'society of individuals' (Elias, 2010) or the consequences of this transformation in terms of chronic ontological insecurity (Giddens, 1991), narcissism (Lasch, 1979), the erosion of communitarian solidarity (Lasch, 1986;Taylor, 1992), the destruction of moral consensus (MacIntyre, 2007(MacIntyre, , 2016, the emergence of an increasingly unstable modern self (Rieff, 1973;Trueman, 2020), the destruction of insulating, protective and (critically)shared hero/ immortality projects' (Becker, 2014) or finally (and perhaps most comprehensively) the catastrophic severing of the social order from any sacred order (Rieff, 2006). Instead, and in common with nearly all ostensibly radical economic-ecological critiques (most recently with Extinction Rebellion and 'degrowth'), the neo-Schumacherians retain without comment or reflection the assumption that the postmodern, post-growth society will retain all the modern achievements in relation to liberal individual rights whilst resurrecting the perennial possibilities of anthropologically unspecified 'community' (e.g. ...
E. F. Schumacher’s Small is Beautiful is one of the most succinct elaborations of Catholic social teaching (CST) and ‘distributism’ – construed as an alternative to both capitalism and socialism. Extending the logic of Polanyi, both market and state, and their right- and left-wing ideological expressions, are shown to be contending forms of collectivism – in that both aggregate the agency of disembedded ‘billiard ball’ individuals. Schumacher’s socio-economic vision is rooted in Livelihood and is orthogonal to both left and right, creating an opportunity for an alternative to modernity involving patterns of embedded production, consumption and reproduction (family, household and place-bound community). ‘Smallness’ and ‘localness’ speak to forms of embedded social capital that are ‘sticky’, viscous and relational, more ascriptive and less fluid. But for precisely this reason, the political agenda implicit in Schumacher’s vision is not only post-liberal, but explicitly both covenantal and Christian. It requires the ontology of sovereign, self-actualizing individuals to be reconnected and constrained through a transcendent relationality with God. Small is Beautiful is shown to be diametrically opposed to the eco-modernist, gnostic and sometimes even transhumanist worldview of global environmentalism.
... Work ethics creates positive intention, exposure of abilities, and value and importance of their work. Ethics is defined as a set of moral principles or values; it differentiates between what is good and bad and, establishes moral duty and obligations, and ascertains principles of conduct for an individual and a professional group (Lasch, 2019). The concept regarding right and wrong standards is said to be ethics which is established by the group and is compulsory for them to follow and set limits on behaviour (Specchia et al., 2021). ...
In private banking institutions in Pakistan, there exists a notable gap in comprehending the intricate dynamics of work ethics, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment. This gap hinders the development of effective strategies to enhance employee engagement and organizational performance. The study's insights offer valuable implications for enhancing work ethics, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment within private banking institutions, thereby contributing to improved employee performance and overall organizational effectiveness. This study aimed to investigate work ethics and its impact on employee performance. This study was conducted on the employees of four selected private banks in Pakistan. The quantitative research methodology was used, and a structural questionnaire (close-ended) was employed for data collection. Smart PLS was used to analyse and check the contributory relationship among variables. The results revealed that work ethics are positively and significantly related to job satisfaction, organizational commitment and employee performance, as well as a significant relation between job satisfaction employee performance and organizational commitment to employee performance in private sector banks in Pakistan.
... Narcissism refers to a personality attribute marked by feelings of "grandiosity, self-love, and inflated self-views" (Campbell et al., 2011, p. 269). The impact of narcissism in organizations cannot be overlooked (Lasch, 1979;Owens et al., 2015) because individuals who strive for and achieve leadership positions frequently exhibit distinct narcissistic characteristics Vogel, 2006). Therefore, organizational researchers have increasingly directed their attention toward the influence of leader narcissism within work settings (Carnevale et al., 2018a;Zhang et al., 2022). ...
Abstract
Purpose
This study examines how leaders’ narcissistic rivalry (LNR) affects the in-role performance (IRP) and proactive customer service performance (PCSP) of employees in the hospitality industry. Specifically, this study investigates the mediating role of psychological distress and the moderating role of locus of control (LOC) in the aforementioned relationships.
Design/methodology/approach
This study administered a multi-wave, multi-source questionnaire survey with 323 employees working in 11 full-service hotels in China. Statistical analyses were performed using the PROCESS macro in SPSS 26 software and structural equation modeling using Mplus 8.3 software.
Findings
The authors' results suggest that LNR can negatively affect hospitality employees’ IRP and PCSP and that these relationships are mediated by psychological distress. Additionally, the impact of LNR on psychological distress can be lessened by internal LOC.
Originality/value
This study contributes to the literature on leader narcissism by investigating how LNR affects IRP and PCSP among hospitality employees. Drawing on conservation of resources theory, this study also identifies a novel mediating mechanism (psychological distress) connecting LNR to hospitality employees’ service outcomes. Furthermore, this study reveals the moderating role of LOC in the relationship between LNR and psychological distress.
... The spectacle is the guardian of that sleep". In this account, the physical removal of the other and, in some cases, of self, implies the substitution of reality with its partial narration, in tune with the symbolic selection of signs, information and contents, as Scott Lasch (1979) emphasizes in reference to the cult of mass narcissism. What does Baudrillard mean by "the right to difference" and cultural universalism? ...
The essay dwells on the construction of a sociology of the contrapuntal that revolves around the social and symbolic patterns concerning the representation of mass human annihilation, as in the case of the Holocaust. In this view, Roger Silverstone’s metaphor of media contrapuntuality – inspired by the analysis of some narrative masterpieces focused on imperialistic and colonial exploitation – may support the development of a sociological pathway supporting the analysis of the “rhetoric of evil” historically permeating the reflection on the refusal and the oppression of Otherness. Contrapuntuality deals with communication, memory and identity, since the rhetoric patterns of media discourse are shaped not only by the negative issues, but also by good deeds and intentions that rarely are attractive to journalists. The proposal of such a sociology of the contrapuntal, inspired by the counterbalance of good and evil in the public sphere, complies with the increasing complexity of our mediascapes, in which mass massacres and identity annihilation, including the Holocaust, are constantly media represented, in line with the need to contrast cultural marginalization and existential displacement.
Šiame straipsnyje, remiantis focus grupių tyrimu, nagrinėjamas visuomenės požiūris į politiką bei politikus, populiariojoje, anot M. Eliade, sąmonėje egzistuojantys sąlyginai stabilūs politikų bei valdžios institucijų įvaizdžiai, subjektyvios žmonių nuostatos politikos atžvilgiu, taip pat kaip politika bei politikai yra suvokiami jų kasdieninio gyvenimo filosofijoje. Tyrimo tikslas – atskleisti, kokios žmonių nuostatos, patirtys,subjektyvios interpretacijos lemia jų nusivylimą ir nusišalinimą nuo politikos bei antipolitinių nuostatų formavimąsi Lietuvoje.
Social work presents itself as a social justice profession, being concerned with the empowerment and liberation of people. Here, we argue that social work as it is instituted in programs of higher education, shares the same assumptions of need, scarcity, and la Technique as the society it criticizes, and is an iatrogenic radical monopoly. We critique these assumptions in relation to social work and social work education and then discuss the Illichian concept of conviviality on the basis of which we make suggestions for reform.
This paper explores the relationship between narcissism and prosocial behavior, challenging the mainstream view that narcissism typically undermines prosocial actions. We argue that in collectivist cultures, where social harmony and interdependence are central, narcissistic traits can manifest as prosocial behavior, driven by the pursuit of social status. This dynamic is moderated by interdependent self‐construal, which ties personal identity to group relationships. To substantiate our claim, we conducted four comprehensive studies. Study 1 ( N = 425) analyzed the cross‐cultural variance in the relationship between narcissism and prosocial behavior. Studies 2A ( N = 244) and 2B ( N = 295) accessed and manipulated the interdependent self‐construal individuals in both Eastern and Western cultural settings to explore the moderating role of cultural tendencies. Study 3 ( N = 605) explored a moderated mediation model to explore the mechanisms underpinning the facilitated effect of narcissism on prosocial behavior through the social status pursuit. Our research shows that in collectivist settings, narcissism can fuel prosocial behaviors, moderated by interdependent self‐construal, which connects narcissism to prosocial behavior through the desire for social status. This breakthrough deepens our understanding of narcissism within cultural contexts, highlighting the importance of considering cultural factors in psychological research and offering new insights into the diverse expressions of personality traits across societies.
Tekst porusza problem seksualizacji przestrzeni cyfrowej i wirtualizacji cielesności. Punktem wyjścia dla tych rozważań autor uczynił selfie jako praktykę odnoszącą się do pojęcia kultury narcyzmu – zaproponowanego najpierw przez Christophera Lascha (The Culture of Narcissism, 1979), a następnie rozwiniętego, w kontekście cyfrowego medium, przez Magdalenę Szpunar (Kultura cyfrowego narcyzmu, 2016). Analiza ilościowo-jakościowa twórczości Amouranth na platformie Twitch, z wykorzystaniem narzędzia analitycznego Twitch Tracker, jest próbą zastosowania zaproponowanej teorii w praktyce.
In this chapter, we use the empirical findings of a qualitative sociological research on middle-class consumption and consumerism in Greece before, during, and after the economic crisis (2009/2010–2018). By adopting the bottom-up form of inquiry methodology, we analyze the research subjects’ repertoires of consumer action and discourse, in which their ambivalent attitude towards fashion is highlighted. This attitude seems to move between individualized “conformity” to what is promoted (both by the mainstream fashion system and by users and “creative cultural entrepreneurs” of social media), stylistic preferences and their “creative” appropriation by the subjects. The coexistence of the attitude of “individualized conformity” and “creative appropriation” indicates how the subjects, through consumer practices, seek to construct the self as a skillful chooser, that is, to constitute themselves as worthy subjects, capable of personal, successful choices, and again to prove themselves as “competent consumers”, subjects capable of playing successfully in the field of fashion and consumption.
The transition from entrepreneurial to corporate capitalism, especially over the latter half of the 20th century, caused the rise of sociopathy and narcissism as organisational and cultural pathologies. This process intensified and was further facilitated by neoliberalism’s 1980s political ascendancy with the promotion of its societal values to cultural prominence. It has encouraged the societal dominance of Dark-triad personality types; overt narcissists, sub-clinical psychopaths and machiavellian sociopaths, with an increasing symptomatic incidence of these behavioural traits among otherwise neurotypical individuals on organisational, cultural and individual psychological levels.
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Modernity is like a double-edged sword; it produces positive and negative poles. The positive pole of modernity is accepted, but the negative pole brings more worries to humanity. One of some negative effects of modernity is the culture of narcissism. It attacks the ultimate principles in human’s life; therefore we can say that personal, cultural, and spiritual problems are narcissistic problems. The writer argues that narcissism has become epidemic which has beem slowly infecting people accross the globe. It has threatened humanity. Thus, science, ethics, philosophy and, even, theology cannot just stay quietly in their comfort zones. Humanity has to be saved and that path of salvation has to be placed in the most personal point. That is the ‘self’. To save humanity means to return to the Most Divine as the “True Self”. It indicates the fusion between the Most Divine and I. It is expected from the fusion that human will have the paradigm of the Most Divine, including in emptying the self.
I propose a new clinical entity, a hybrid between narcissistic and borderline personality disorders. It is not the comorbidity which it quite common in clinical settings. It is a personality disorder that seamlessly integrates features of both NPD and BPD.
This chapter analyzes the close, though often neglected, relationship between masculinity and emotion in culture and history and, in doing so, the political potential of emotions to transform existing sociocultural relations and structures. To illustrate this, the chapter discusses the political potential of profeminist men’s emotions as part of the feminist struggle for social and gender equality. As a concrete example, focus is given to several existing “new fatherhood” models that pervade not only culture but also contemporary literature. Although patriarchal structures undeniably keep oppressing women—as well as some (homosexual) men—the fact that some men are actively and emotionally involved in feminism—as well as caring for their daughters and sons—seems to challenge monolithic views of masculinity as synonymous with patriarchy.
أثبتت التكنولوجيا عبر التاريخ أنها ليست وسيلة للتقدم فحسب ، بل هي أيضًا سلاح تدميري خطير. ف بدلاً من إن تنقذ حياة الناس ، يمكن أن تؤدي التكنولوجيا إلى إصابة مستخدميها بالاكتئاب والإصابة بالعديد من الأمراض العقلية. تناقش هذه الدراسة بأن الأمراض العقلية لأشخاص ما بعد الحداثة سببها تكنولوجيا المعلومات وتسارع الحياة الجديدة التي تؤثر على عقول البشر وتؤدي إلى الاكتئاب والفصام والملل وما إلى ذلك. الهدف الرئيسي من هذا البحث هو القول بأن هذه الأمراض العقلية ليست حالة نفسية ، ولكنها آلية دفاعية يستخدمها العقل للتخلص من ضغوط الحياة الجديدة ، و تهدف هذه الورقة الى شرح مثل هذه المسالة في رواية نادي القتال ل تشاك بالانيوك بالاعتماد على الملاحظات والآراء التي أبداها المفكر والفيلسوف الشيوعي الإيطالي فرانكو بيراردي. وفقًا لمفهومه سيمورأسمالية ، وهو استهلاك العقل البشري من أجل الرأسمالية ، فقد فصلتنا تقنيات المعلومات في القرن الحادي والعشرين عن عالمنا الاجتماعي أو المادي أو الحسي. تكشف رواية نادي القتال عن الظلام الكامن في عالمنا الجديد لتكنولوجيا المعلومات مع التركيز على رجل مكتئب مريض بحياته للتو ويريد تغييرها.
A life lived in public, it has been said, is a superficial one. If so, then the psychoanalytic claim to depth is well founded. Not only was psychoanalysis a theory of the private world - that is of personal life - it also took place in private. Psychoanalysis revolved around secrets, not exploits, confidentiality was its highest professional value, and one could give no higher testimony to the success of a psychoanalysis than to say that it had been forgotten. Given all this, no subject better exemplified the privileged status that private interior space occupied in psychoanalysis than its attitude toward narcissism.
This article is an exploration of the ways in which affluence undermines itself, based on a reexamination of two influential books: John Kenneth Galbraith’s Affluent Society (1958) and Tibor Scotivsky’s Joyless Economy (1976). Galbraith’s book offered blueprints for the reform of both the American economy and the discipline of economics based on his understanding that the affluent society was driven increasingly by the consumer rather than the producer. The essay explores the strengths and weaknesses of Galbraith’s analysis based on an account of the course of American public policy in the decades since he wrote. He had advocated for an expansion of public goods; what emerged instead was an expansion of transfer payments. Scitovsky’s account of consumer behavior sought to explain why rising income led to dissatisfied—joyless—consumers. Expanding on his approach, I identify the dynamic of consumer demand that acts to undermine the condition of affluence itself.
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