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The Right to Narcissism : A Case for an Im-possible Self-love / Pleshette DeArmitt.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780823254439
  • 9780823254460
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 128.0 23
LOC classification:
  • BF575.N35
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Right to Narcissism? -- PART I. Rousseau: The Passions of Narcissus -- Introduction: Another Morality Tale? -- 1. Man’s Double Birth -- 2. Regarding Self-Love Anew -- PART II. Kristeva: The Rebirth of Narcissus -- Introduction: Self-Love—Beyond Sin, Symptoms, and Sublime Values -- 3. Reconceiving Freud’s Narcissus -- 4. Transference, or Amorous Dynamics -- PART III. Derrida: The Mourning of Narcissus -- Introduction: The Very Concept of Narcissism -- 5. The Eye of Narcissus -- 6. The Ear of Echo -- Afterword. Narcissism—By What Right? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: This book aims to wrest the concept of narcissism from its common and pejorative meanings— egoism and vanity—by revealing its complexity and importance. DeArmitt undertakes the work of rehabilitating “narcissism” by patiently reexamining the terms and figures that have been associated with it, especially in the writings of Rousseau, Kristeva, and Derrida.These thinkers are known for incisively exposing a certain (traditional) narcissism that has been operative in Western thought and culture and for revealing the violence it has wrought— from the dangers of amour-propre and the pathology of a collective “one’s own” to the phantasm of the sovereign One. Nonetheless, each of these thinkers denounces the naive denunciation of “narcissism,” as the dangers of a non-negotiation with narcissism are more perilous. By rethinking “narcissism” as a complex structure of self-relation through the Other, the book reveals the necessity of an im-possible self-love.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Right to Narcissism? -- PART I. Rousseau: The Passions of Narcissus -- Introduction: Another Morality Tale? -- 1. Man’s Double Birth -- 2. Regarding Self-Love Anew -- PART II. Kristeva: The Rebirth of Narcissus -- Introduction: Self-Love—Beyond Sin, Symptoms, and Sublime Values -- 3. Reconceiving Freud’s Narcissus -- 4. Transference, or Amorous Dynamics -- PART III. Derrida: The Mourning of Narcissus -- Introduction: The Very Concept of Narcissism -- 5. The Eye of Narcissus -- 6. The Ear of Echo -- Afterword. Narcissism—By What Right? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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This book aims to wrest the concept of narcissism from its common and pejorative meanings— egoism and vanity—by revealing its complexity and importance. DeArmitt undertakes the work of rehabilitating “narcissism” by patiently reexamining the terms and figures that have been associated with it, especially in the writings of Rousseau, Kristeva, and Derrida.These thinkers are known for incisively exposing a certain (traditional) narcissism that has been operative in Western thought and culture and for revealing the violence it has wrought— from the dangers of amour-propre and the pathology of a collective “one’s own” to the phantasm of the sovereign One. Nonetheless, each of these thinkers denounces the naive denunciation of “narcissism,” as the dangers of a non-negotiation with narcissism are more perilous. By rethinking “narcissism” as a complex structure of self-relation through the Other, the book reveals the necessity of an im-possible self-love.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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