Ch. 1. The self as perpetual experiment -- ch. 2. Nobrow : forming an identity in urban culture -- ch. 3. The Bobo dilemma -- ch. 4. Failing fathers, failing sons -- ch. 5. Finding ethnic identity and a place in Western society -- ch. 6. Psychoanalysis in the age of the designed self
Summary
What can contemporary psychoanalysis bring to the understanding of Generation X, a cohort for whom the trivialization of a dizzying array of possible experiences teamed with the pressure to lead spectacular lives often leads to diffuse feelings of confusion, depression, and disorientation. The Designed Self chronicles Strenger's therapeutic encounters with five extraordinarily gifted young adults for whom the ideal of authenticity long associated with the Baby-Boom generation was supplanted by the need to experiment endlessly with the self. Perpetual self-experimentation, constantly r
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-180) and index
