" In a book subtitled American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations, Christopher Lasch argued that postwar America is defined by a "culture of" this condition.
The nature of this condition was debated by Heinz Kohut and Otto Kernberg. In an essay on this condition, a University of Rochester historian describes how "the happy hooker" replaced Horatio Alger as the image of success. Robert Raskin and Calvin Hall designed a test for it where subjects choose between statements like "Compliments embarrass me" and "I like to be complimented." In a book subtitled American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations, Christopher Lasch argued that postwar America is defined by a "culture of" this condition. Sigmund Freud's 1914 paper On this conditon popularized its name, and DSM-5 includes "largely superficial" relationships and a "pervasive pattern of grandiosity" among its indicators. For 10 points, name this disorder of excessive vanity, named for a man from Greek myth.
The nature of this condition was debated by Heinz Kohut and Otto Kernberg.
narcissism [or narcissistic personality disorder; or pathological narcissism; or cultural narcissism; prompt on reasonable synonyms such as "egocentrism" or "megalomania" until "Diminishing" is read