The Marginal Self

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By René J. Muller

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In The Marginal Self: An Existential Inquiry into Narcissism drawing from existential philosophy, psychiatry and literature, René J. Muller characterizes what he sees as the phenomenon of marginality-the failure to become one's most authentic and best self.

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Preface

1. Existential Shock: Can Man Be Man?
2. Self and the Existential Tradition (I): Kierkegaard, Husserl, and Heidegger
3. Self and the Existential Tradition (II): Sartre and Camus
4. Self, Other, and World: A Phenomenological Description
5. "Action" and "Contemplation": A Dialectic of Self
6. Masks, Splitting, and the Schizoid Erosion of Self
7. The Search for Self and the Loss of Self in Work
8. The Search for Self and the Loss of Self in Love
9. Richard Nixon: A Paradigm of the Marginal Self
10. Beyond the Marginal Self References and Notes

Index