>On Wed, Mar 6, 2002, Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema wrote:
>
>> The psychoanalytic literature on Borderline Personality is very
>> interesting, and calls for a political interpretation, mostly because it
>> captures the details of advanced degeneration of the bourgeois ego.
>> Just as the Frankfurt School appropriated the psychoanalytic thought of
>> 75 years ago in a fruitful way, we need to do the same now. Much of the
>> change in social reality has led to fundamental shifts in family
>> relationships, with corresponding changes in the nature of oedipality.
>
>I believe the heyday of the borderline personality idea was the late 70s.
>As I remember it, the idea always had most of its success as a political
I'm way behind, and just catching up, but as I remember it, the 70s were about narcissism, both in psychoanalysis & pop culture. Kernberg wrote about borderline personalities along with narcissists, but it never got the buzz that NPD did until more recently. I saw a book in B&N on how to live with a borderline a few months ago.
Doug