A clear and present danger : narcissism in the era of Donald Trump / edited by Leonard Cruz and Steven Buser ; with articles by Jean Shinoda Bolen [and 17 others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cruz, Leonard, 1957- editor.

Buser, Steven, 1963- editor.

Standardized Title:

Clear and present danger (Chiron Publications : 2016)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trump, Donald, 1946-.

Trump, Donald.

Narcissism.

Personality and politics--United States.

Personality and politics.

Political culture--United States.

Political culture.

Presidents.

United States.

Presidents--United States--Election--2016.

United States--Politics and government--2009-2017.

Politics and government.

Elections--United States.

Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ).

Presidents--Election.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xxi, 250 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Asheville, North Carolina : Chiron Publications, 2016.

Summary:

"Narcissism is epidemic and there is scarcely a domain that is immune. "A Clear and Present Danger: Narcissism in the Era of Donald Trump" brings together bestselling authors, university professors, and practicing clinicians. "Every country has the government it deserves," said Alexis de Toqueville, author of "Democracy in America." Whatever history eventually records about the 2016 presidential election, this frank and thoughtful exploration of narcissism will prove to be a timely and timeless study. Narcissism demands to be mirrored and refuses to be challenged. It demands acclaim, obedience, and accommodation, while disregarding others. Whether narcissism overtakes the home, the workplace, or the national stage, everyone who comes under Narcissus's spell, both the narcissist and their subjects, suffer. Pundits insist that politics has seldom been as polarized as it became during the 2016 election in the USA. But there is a long history of what the religious scholar Mircea Eleade, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Henry Corbin, and C.G. Jung described as "coincidentia oppositorum," the coincidence of opposites. While Donald Trump galvanized a vast number of angry, disaffected voters, Senator Bernie Sanders mobilized enormous crowds of young voters who were intent on changing the status quo. The contributors share a hope that these essays will become a mirror for self-examination. Gaze into the reflecting pool, but beware that you do not become absorbed in your own image and the echo of your own voice. Then let your gaze return to the world around you, to the people who share your life, to the nation and planet you inhabit. And as Dr. Estes reminds us in the closing pages, remember 'We were made for times like these'"--Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

Narcissus's forlorn hope : the fading image in a pool too deep / James Hollis

The Trump complex, the John Wayne archetype and states of national possession / Steven Buser

Healthy presidential narcissism : is that possible? / Nathan Schwartz-Salant

Trump and the American selfie : archetypal defenses of the group spirit / Tom Singer

Trumplestilskin : narcissism & the will to power / Leonard Cruz

Fascist style in narcissistic fashion / John McClain

Waking up! : malignant narcissism : how Bluebeard and Hitler came to power / Clarissa Pinkola Estés

The Trump phenomenon / Thomas Patrick Lavin

The hall of mirrors : narcissism and celebrity in the world of Twitter and reality TV / Kathryn Madden

Narcissism and the masculine / James Wyly

Narcissism in the home / Nancy Swift Furlotti

Narcissism and social media : eros held hostage / Eve Maram

The wounded healer : transformation through compassion / Jean Shinoda Bolen

Who was Narcissisus? / Alden Josey

Narcissism in our collective home, our American culture / Nancy Swift Furlotti

The demonic and narcissistic power of the media in Shakespeare's Macbeth / Susan Rowland

The opposite of loneliness is not togetherness, it is intimacy / Laurence de Rosen

America in the grip of alpha narcissism : the predator within and amongst each and all of us / Jacqueline West

Come, there is much that we can yet do! / Robert Moore

Do not lose heart, we were made for these times / Clarissa Pinkola Estés.

Notes:

"With Articles by Jean Shinoda Bolen, Steven Buser, Leonard Cruz, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Nancy Swift Furlotti, James Hollis, Alden Josey, Thomas Patrick Lavin, Kathryn Madden, Eve Maram, John McClain, Robert Moore, Laurence de Rosen, Susan Rowland, Nathan Schwartz-Salant, Thomas Singer, Jacqueline West, James Wyly."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version:

ISBN:

9781630513955

1630513954

9781630513962

1630513962

OCLC:

956542015