| Introduction | p. xv |
| Preface | p. 1 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 9 |
| The Awareness Movement and the Social Invasion of the Self | |
| The Waning of the Sense of Historical Time | p. 11 |
| The Therapeutic Sensibility | p. 15 |
| From Politics to Self-Examination | p. 23 |
| Confession and Anticonfession | p. 26 |
| The Void Within | p. 31 |
| The Progressive Critique of Privatism | p. 36 |
| The Critique of Privatism: Richard Sennett on the Fall of Public Man | p. 38 |
| The Narcissistic Personality of Our Time | |
| Narcissism as a Metaphor of the Human Condition | p. 43 |
| Psychology and Sociology | p. 46 |
| Narcissism in Recent Clinical Literature | p. 49 |
| Social Influences on Narcissism | p. 55 |
| The World View of the Resigned | p. 64 |
| Changing Modes of Making It: From Horatio Alger to the Happy Hooker | |
| The Original Meaning of the Work Ethic | p. 68 |
| From "Self-Culture" to Self-Promotion through "Winning Images" | p. 71 |
| The Eclipse of Achievement | p. 75 |
| The Art of Social Survival | p. 80 |
| The Apotheosis of Individualism | p. 83 |
| The Banality of Pseudo-Self-Awareness: Theatrics of Politics and Everyday Existence | |
| The Propaganda of Commodities | p. 89 |
| Truth and Credibility | p. 93 |
| Advertising and Propaganda | p. 94 |
| Politics as Spectacle | p. 96 |
| Radicalism as Street Theater | p. 100 |
| Hero Worship and Narcissistic Idealization | p. 103 |
| Narcissism and the Theater of the Absurd | p. 106 |
| The Theater of Everyday Life | p. 110 |
| Ironic Detachment as an Escape from Routine | p. 115 |
| No Exit | p. 117 |
| The Degradation of Sport | |
| The Spirit of Play versus the Rage for National Uplift | p. 123 |
| Huizinga on Homo Ludens | p. 125 |
| The Critique of Sport | p. 127 |
| The Trivialization of Athletics | p. 132 |
| Imperialism and the Cult of the Strenuous Life | p. 134 |
| Corporate Loyalty and Competition | p. 138 |
| Bureaucracy and "Teamwork" | p. 143 |
| Sports and the Entertainment Industry | p. 144 |
| Leisure as Escape | p. 147 |
| Schooling and the New Illiteracy | |
| The Spread of Stupefaction | p. 151 |
| The Atrophy of Competence | p. 154 |
| Historical Origins of the Modern School System | p. 157 |
| From Industrial Discipline to Manpower Selection | p. 159 |
| From Americanization to "Life Adjustment" | p. 162 |
| Basic Education versus National Defense Education | p. 166 |
| The Civil Rights Movement and the Schools | p. 169 |
| Cultural Pluralism and the New Paternalism | p. 172 |
| The Rise of the Multiversity | p. 174 |
| Cultural "Elitism" and Its Critics | p. 178 |
| Education as a Commodity | p. 180 |
| The Socialization of Reproduction and the Collapse of Authority | |
| The "Socialization of Workingmen" | p. 185 |
| The Juvenile Court | p. 188 |
| Parent Education | p. 191 |
| Permissiveness Reconsidered | p. 194 |
| The Cult of Authenticity | p. 198 |
| Psychological Repercussions of the "Transfer of Functions" | p. 202 |
| Narcissism, Schizophrenia, and the Family | p. 203 |
| Narcissism and the "Absent Father" | p. 205 |
| The Abdication of Authority and the Transformation of the Superego | p. 209 |
| The Family's Relation to Other Agencies of Social Control | p. 214 |
| Human Relations on the Job: The Factory as a Family | p. 217 |
| The Flight from Feeling: Sociopsychology of the Sex War | |
| The Trivialization of Personal Relations | p. 224 |
| The Battle of the Sexes: Its Social History | p. 225 |
| The Sexual "Revolution" | p. 228 |
| Togetherness | p. 231 |
| Feminism and the Intensification of Sexual Warfare | p. 233 |
| Strategies of Accommodation | p. 235 |
| The Castrating Woman of Male Fantasy | p. 239 |
| The Soul of Man and Woman under Socialism | p. 243 |
| The Shattered Faith in the Regeneration of Life | |
| The Dread of Old Age | p. 247 |
| Narcissism and Old Age | p. 249 |
| The Social Theory of Aging: "Growth" as Planned Obsolescence | p. 252 |
| Prolongevity: The Biological Theory of Aging | p. 255 |
| Paternalism Without Father | |
| The New Rich and the Old | p. 259 |
| The Managerial and Professional Elite as a Ruling Class | p. 263 |
| Progressivism and the Rise of the New Paternalism | p. 264 |
| Liberal Criticism of the Welfare State | p. 266 |
| Bureaucratic Dependence and Narcissism | p. 270 |
| The Conservative Critique of Bureaucracy | p. 275 |
| Afterword: The Culture of Narcissism Revisited | p. 281 |
| Notes | p. 297 |
| Index | p. 321 |
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