“[The] collapse of our common life…has freed the imagination from external constraints but exposed it more directly than before to the tyranny of inner compulsions and anxieties.” Précis: The purposefully contrary but peerless Christopher Lasch—social critic, historian, Marxist/Freudian theorist—follows up his surprise bestseller The Culture of Narcissism with an even more explicitly—in fact, thorough-goingly—Freudian analysis [...]
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The Minimal Self (Christopher Lasch, 1984)
Posted in Book notes, tagged capitalism, Christopher Lasch, Freud, narcissism, The Minimal Self on October 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Honorary Consul (Graham Greene, 1973)
Posted in Book notes, tagged fiction, Graham Greene, The Honorary Consul on October 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A half-English, half-Paraguayan doctor in his mid-thirties, living in northern Argentina, gets caught up in a terrorist kidnapping through his childhood connections to the perpetrators and through their propinquity with his long-lost father, an anti-government radical and now political prisoner. “Ironically,” the kidnappers mistake an unimportant and unappreciated minor functionary, Great Britain’s “honorary” consul to [...]
