«<i>Culture of narcissism</i>» by Christopher Lash

A programme study by Christopher Lash, professor of history at the University of Rochester (1932-1994), The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Era of Diminishing Expectations, first published in 1979, has become a certain manifesto of a new type of culture and revealed the forming peculiarities of a modern man sociotype. Basing on theoretical generalizations of the clinical practice of psychoanalysts, the scholar examined the socio-political and economic processes in the United States in the XXth century through the prism of the “narcissistic culture” concept. The current article provides an overview of the key provisions of Ch. Lash’s book, which, despite its obvious relevance, still has no professional translation into the Russian language.