The Follies of Self

to the decomposition of society and culture.nBeset by a fear of death, the narcissistnseeks, above all, individual survival,nto which any other ideals must bensacrificed. "People no longer dream ofnovercoming difficulties," Lasch writes,n"but merely of surviving them." Tonthat it might be added that an excessivenpreoccupation with survival . . .