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The Marginal Self

An Existential Inquiry into Narcissism
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In The Marginal Self: An Existential Inquiry into Narcissism, drawing from existential philosophy, psychiatry and literature, Rene J. Muller characterizes what he sees as the phenomenon of marginality-the failure to become one's most authentic and best self. This refusal often involves denying one's freedom, the essence of being human, even as that freedom is ironically misused in negating it. Muller argues that the Judeo-Christian tradition and the reliance on reason as a transcendent absolute, both bedrocks of Western culture for over 2,000 years, no longer provide a satisfactory foundation for living. He shows how marginalizing choices made in an alienating culture inevitably lead to disillusion and pathological behavior.
Rene J. Muller is a psychologist whose main interests include psychiatric diagnosis and psychiatric medicine. He is the author of over 100 articles and eight books, most recently The Four Domains of Mental illness: An Alternative to the DSM-5.
Preface Existential Shock: Can Man Be Man? Self and the Existential Tradition (I): Kierkegaard, Husserl, and Heidegger Self and the Existential Tradition (II): Sartre and Camus Self, Other, and World: A Phenomenological Description "Action" and "Contemplation": A Dialectic of Self Masks, Splitting, and the Schizoid Erosion of Self The Search for Self and the Loss of Self in Work The Search for Self and the Loss of Self in Love Richard Nixon: A Paradigm of the Marginal Self Beyond the Marginal Self References and Notes Index
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