The narcissism label surged in 1973 alongside productive-economy contraction
Evidence
It is no coincidence that the word “narcissist” becomes a term of precipitously increasing interest beginning in 1973, that same nerve point for the particularity of recent economic history which we chronicled in “Circulation.” Contractions of the productive economy have brought expansions of the image economy. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 91
Categorization
- XREF: The 1973 date is the same industrial/post-industrial hinge the reader tracks through Jameson, likely anchoring Kornbluh’s structural debt to Jameson’s neoliberal-turn periodization.
- QUESTION: Is 1973 cited as a documented linguistic datapoint or asserted? Worth chasing a source for the vocabulary-truncation claim.