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The Dilemma of Narcissusav Louis Lavelle “Social critics call our civilization a culture of narcissism. Psychotherapists in North America report a virtual epidemic of narcissistic character disorders. This impressive book may be needed even more urgently in our time than when it was written fifty-four years ago. Lavelle demonstrates a positive spiritual and metaphysical side to Narcissus’ self-love, one which compensates the negative ego-centered and mundane physical side. He shows that our dilemma may well be that these two sides belong to each other as if they are a total complex, a marriage of opposites. The Narcissus myth thereby teaches that discovery of mundane significance comes only, yet really, by means of image, reflection, and appearance. This is a very provocative notion, especially now, when imagination is demeaned and often demeaning.” —Professor David L. Miller, Syracuse University Beställ här |