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# Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing to Us Hardcover – 15 Jun. 2017

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## Customer Reviews

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    We, the self
  

*by H***Z on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 July 2017*

Will Storr is a delightful story teller. The theme of this book has been gaining currency in the past few years largely in connection with our reliance on technology and the age of digitalisation. Storr’s book focuses on the concept of our ‘self’ and how we have changed the way we conceptualise ourselves in this new age. He begins with a little history of our sense of self-worth and the trends in suicide. We are increasingly becoming ‘social perfectionists’, having greater, perhaps inflated, sense of our self and our capabilities as well as our responsibilities. But because Storr fuses interviews with relevant people, he points out that some, do not think that the problem lies in our becoming more social perfectionists but that it is our environment that is changing. He quotes Professor Gordon Flett: ‘In part, that’s because of the internet and the social media. First, when a public figure makes a mistake there seems to be a much stronger, more intense backlash. So kids growing up now see what happens to people who make a mistake and they’re very fearful of it.’ Storr examines the self in context. He seems to incline to the modern view that we are not the result of nature versus nature. He thinks nature and nurture are ‘not in competition, but in conspiracy’. He examines the fact that easterners and westerners do not just think about the world differently, but they actually see different worlds. Storr discusses the vanishing of the era of ‘character’ and the ‘arrival of the age of personality’. His chapter on ‘The Digital Self’ digs into the acute problems we see in politics in the past couple of years and the rise of populism. ‘To many on the left, immersed in the shibboleths of identity politics, these were outrages appeals to old fashioned racism, so obviously abhorrent that surely no sensible people would be able to look past them. Yet different ears heard a different story. They heard change-making outsiders scorning the establishment. They heard brave rebels disparaging the smug and ‘politically correct’ educated class who routinely ignored them in favour of minorities and then patronized and insulted them when they complained.’ Some readers may find parts of the book a little rambling, some stories a little too long or disconnected, but that is the style of this book – weaving stories and interviews with Storr’s own ideas. A reader who is irked by this style may give this book a three-star review, but otherwise, the substance is lucid and full of information and insight.

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    Interesting...
  

*by J***F on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 September 2017*

Interesting insight into how the western world has become so self obsessed.  I bought it as I thought it might be useful for my teenage daughter but there was a fatalistic theme to it which I thought would be inappropriate for her.  But for an adult, it was a well researched and interesting journey of discovery, uncovering some of the reasons why we are the way we are.

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    Worth reading but research biased
  

*by M***L on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 June 2018*

Storr writes extremely well, his book on the search for the self and the rise of narcissism in western culture is a good start. It is very easy to read and has huge number of facets, which some might regard as being overly rambling, drifting and lacking focus.The book tells us that there is not just one self but there are many selves all vying for control, and I am unsure why storr does not elaborate on this as a route to narcissism; suppression of the nurturing, loving selves and over expression of the aggressive, critical parts which conspire with an overly narcissistic culture. He completely ignores Carl Jung, whose work focused on these architeypes and their role in our behavior, Jungian therapists believe that some of these architypes are suppressed as part of our upbringing and socialisation and it is the role of therapy to reintegrate them - what Jung callled individuation or becoming whole. Reintegration is therefore about getting the various architypes to work together, rather than competing.  I believe that had Storr integrated this into his book the direction it took might have been somewhat different. There is an interesting section on neo-liberalism and Ayn Rand which I believe is extremely valuable.

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