Subject to Delusions: Narcissism, Modernism, Gender

by Caroline Rupprecht and Caroline Rupprecht

Book Overview

A figure of reflexivity, narcissism describes a relation between self and other mediated through the mirror or reflection. As such, the concept might help us to consider how what we come to know as the other, or the object, is always the result of a process of image-making. It is in this suggestive sense that narcissism interests Caroline Rupprecht in Subject to Delusions.

Because "the other," or the object, is constructed, Rupprecht...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810122359
• ISBN13: 9780810122352
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"