| | == Baby boomers, millennials and narcissism == | | == Baby boomers, millennials and narcissism == |
| | The [[baby boom]] generation is commonly referred to as the "me generation".<ref>Bristow, Jennie (2015). Baby Boomers and Generational Conflict. Macmillan Publishers.</ref> Christopher Lasch, an American historian and social critic, asserted that North American society in the 1970s was a narcissistic society that worshipped fame and consumption, feared dependency/aging, and had possessed death anxiety.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110102133213/http://wfnetwork.bc.edu/berkeley/papers/39.pdf From “Compensation” to “Childhood Wonder”: Why Parents Buy, Allison J. Pugh, Working Paper No. 39, May 2002]</ref> Christopher Lasch in his 1979 book ''The Culture of [[Narcissism]]'' contends that “every age has its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.”<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110102133213/http://wfnetwork.bc.edu/berkeley/papers/39.pdf From “Compensation” to “Childhood Wonder”: Why Parents Buy, Allison J. Pugh, Working Paper No. 39, May 2002]</ref> | | The [[baby boom]] generation is commonly referred to as the "me generation".<ref>Bristow, Jennie (2015). Baby Boomers and Generational Conflict. Macmillan Publishers.</ref> Christopher Lasch, an American historian and social critic, asserted that North American society in the 1970s was a narcissistic society that worshipped fame and consumption, feared dependency/aging, and had possessed death anxiety.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110102133213/http://wfnetwork.bc.edu/berkeley/papers/39.pdf From “Compensation” to “Childhood Wonder”: Why Parents Buy, Allison J. Pugh, Working Paper No. 39, May 2002]</ref> Christopher Lasch in his 1979 book ''The Culture of [[Narcissism]]'' contends that “every age has its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.”<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110102133213/http://wfnetwork.bc.edu/berkeley/papers/39.pdf From “Compensation” to “Childhood Wonder”: Why Parents Buy, Allison J. Pugh, Working Paper No. 39, May 2002]</ref> |