[Sci-tech-public] REMINDER: Elizabeth Lunbeck Special Seminar

[Randyn A. Miller]

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Program in Science, Technology, & Society

presents

SPECIAL SEMINAR



ELIZABETH LUNBECK
Vanderbilt University

"Transformations of Narcissism, from Vienna to Chicago"

Freud published his landmark essay, “On Narcissism,” in 1914, but was not until the Me-Decade 1970s that narcissism became the focus of heated psychoanalytic and cultural debate.  The Chicago-based émigré analyst Heinz Kohut effected a psychoanalytic revolution around it, outlining a healthy, life-sustaining, and non-pathological narcissism expressive of an American optimism.  At the same time, Christopher Lasch, in his 1978 book, The Culture of Narcissism, marshaled analysts’ narcissism to indict his fellow citizens for their greed and self-indulgence, weaving it into well-established narratives of social decline.  Charting narcissism’s clinical and cultural fortunes, the talk also explores some of methodological issues raised in charting the historical fortunes of this protean and now-indispensable concept.


Friday
15 February 2013
4 PM
E51-095

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