Lasch's critique of "narcissism": middlebrow pseudoscience for godless conservatives
Empirically wrong and confused about Freud.
Contemporary political punditry is totally overrun with journalists and social media personalities psychoanalyzing each other — and almost all of it is complete bullshit. That’s why I wrote Most polipsych punditry is complete bullshit a few years ago. If you’d like to see that case laid out in general, with some rigor and patience, I recommend that you …
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