Economic arrangements of image circulation industrially produce narcissistic structure.

Evidence

Freud’s greatest insight is that all clinical structures are effects of cultural arrangement rather than personality electives; the very project of civilization necessarily engenders discontent. An economy that prizes the circulation of images, human capital entrepreneurs, and the data-fication of everything into endless counting of the homogenized same realizes in plasma the mythic promise of the fluid screen. Narcissus’s mirror is industrially ordained. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 90

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Directly extends the structural necessity of sacrifice with the inverse causal line: here industrial image-economy ordains a psychic pathology, rather than ritual checking stratification.
• DEEPTHINKING: ‘Narcissus’s mirror is industrially ordained’ condenses the entire book’s causal thesis into one move — strong candidate for the top tier.
• XREF: connects to: The fantasy of capturing reality live has driven image-making since Narcissus — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 349; US society’s speed and image-saturation have displaced causal depth by surface effects. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1840; Mass media exploit receivers because industrial production meets artisanal biological reception. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 189