Download or read book Narcissism and Its Discontents written by J. Walsh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narcissism and Its Discontents challenges the received wisdom that narcissism is only destructive of good social relations. By building on insights from psychoanalysis and critical theory it puts forward a theorisation of narcissistic sociability which redeems Narcissus from his position as the subject of negative critique.