Egotopia: Narcissism and the New American Landscape

Metaphorically, the ugliness of America's great suburban sprawl is the physical manifestation of our increasing narcissism - our egotopia. The ubiquity of psychotherapy as a medium promoting self-indulgence has deified private man as it has demonized public man. The American landscape, Miller argues, is no longer the physical manifestation of public and communal values. Instead, it has become a projection of private fantasies and narcissism - a plastic, protean phantasmagoria that exists to stimulate aggregate levels of consumption through ever-changing modalities of seduction and anesthetization.

Author(s): John Miller
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Published: 1997-11-10
Pages: 196
Categories: History