From commodity fetishism to commodity narcissism

Cluley, Robert; Dunne, Stephen

doi:10.1177/1470593112451395

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“…Freud (1975) alerts us to the narcissistic strand running through consumption whereby purchases are made to satisfy desires and add to idealised images of selves (Cluley & Dunne, 2012). Consumer culture in general may be linked to the mobilisation of a narcissistic self-identity (Wearing, McDonald, & Wearing, 2013) as selves are increasingly fashioned and differentiated through aesthetic consumption practices (Shields, 2003).…”

Section: Narcissism Environmental Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Narcissism normalisation: tourism influences and sustainability implications

Canavan

2017

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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The concept of narcissism normalisation suggests that individuals and societies are becoming more narcissistic due to various cultural influences. Tourism is reviewed here as one such possible influence. Exploitative, entitled and exhibitionistic tendencies associated with narcissism are wellestablished in tourism. Yet tourism is also an intimate, communal and satisfying activity which may counteract narcissism. Increases in narcissism have significant implications from a sustainable tourism perspective. Narcissism is associated with exploitative and entitled behaviours that over time cause significant harm to those people and landscapes that come into contact with. Narcissism appears to be incompatible with principles of sustainability and the challenges this poses for the industry are reviewed, while the opportunities are also explored. There are signs that narcissism, particularly those aspects relating to exhibitionism, can be co-opted to benefit sustainable development.

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Section: Narcissism Environmental Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Narcissism normalisation: tourism influences and sustainability implications

Canavan

2017

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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“…Salzer-Mörling and Strannegård 2007;Cluley and Dunne 2012). Furthermore, the paper indicates that reflexive critique and cynicism do not always constitute an effective form of resistance (cf.…”

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“…From their perspective, morality is merely used by a majority of members to put up what Sloterdijk (1987) refers to as a façade of civility, grace and political correctness. It is argued that the morals conveyed are contrived, false and untrue in relation to what young people are really doing and that the previous moral conceptions merely represent an idealist image that is disconnected from the consumers' real behavior (see Chatzidakis, Hibbert, and Smith 2007;Salzer-Mörling and Strannegård 2007;Cluley and Dunne 2012;Markkula and Moisander 2012). Connections are again here made to a left-wing and socio-democratic Scandinavian ethos, which does not allow for income discrepancies and does not allow people to stand out from, or to be financially better off than, the great middle.…”

Section: Rainbowmentioning

confidence: 99%

The cynicism of consumer morality

Bertilsson

2015

Consumption Markets & Culture

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Based on an empirical analysis of a yearlong netnography of a Swedish online fashion community, and the explication of the concept of modern cynicism, this paper develops a novel perspective on consumer morality. The analysis suggests that modern cynicism informs consumers of the reasonableness in consciously stating one type of morality while acting out another, in order to handle the morally conflicting demands put on them by contemporary consumer culture. The contribution of the paper is mainly threefold: (i) it conceptualizes instances of consumer morality as a form of consumer cynicism; (ii) it advances our understanding of consumer morality by showing how instances of consumer morality are articulated through cynical discursive practices, steeped in an enlightened disbelief in: the market, the other consumer and the self; and (iii) it shows that consumer cynicism, as enlightened critique, does not necessarily constitute an effective form of resistance. It is concluded that we may observe yet another type of morality developing within contemporary consumption, markets and culture: a morality of cynicism where consumers, actors and organizations not only find something healthy, but also something right or good in a cynical reason.

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“…In sum, analysing how culture and religion can affect a child's toilet training—and, by extension, their later psychological development—could enhance our comprehension of the relationship between defecation‐related problems and consumers' personalities and behaviours. And there is a whole different order of analysis to be done at the societal level with regard to toilet hygiene, capitalism, economic development, and symbolic pollution (Cluley & Dunne, ; Herring, ; Nixon & Gabriel, ; Shankar, Whittaker, & Fitchett, ).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Ojha and Pramanick (1992) showed that Hindu mothers started personalities and behaviours. And there is a whole different order of analysis to be done at the societal level with regard to toilet hygiene, capitalism, economic development, and symbolic pollution (Cluley & Dunne, 2012;Herring, 2014;Nixon & Gabriel, 2015;Shankar, Whittaker, & Fitchett, 2006).…”

Section: Limitations and Future Researchmentioning

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Consumer behaviour and the toilet: Research on expulsive and retentive personalities

Guido

Belk

Rizzo

et al. 2018

J of Consumer Behaviour

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During the last five decades, a number of studies have attempted to draw from psychoanalytic theory to examine the relationship between evacuation disorders and a person's character. According to Freud's original conceptualization, early or harsh toilet training leads children to develop an anal retentive personality, characterized by the tendency to control their bowels as well as their material possessions; by contrast, liberal toilet training leads children to develop an anal expulsive personality, characterized by the tendency to excessively relieve faeces, as well as be being careless, messy, and inclined to dispose of old products and buy new ones. Although toilet training may not be responsible, these sets of traits do cohere. To empirically examine these hypotheses, we studied the personality traits and consumption habits of people suffering from different bowel disorders. By means of semistructured interviews, we analysed the personality characteristics, sociodemographic backgrounds, and peculiar consumption habits of people suffering from constipation and diarrhoeic syndromes. The results show that constipated people tend to be obstinate, excessively concerned with hygiene, and inclined toward retaining possessions, whereas diarrhoeic people tend to be careless, disorganized, and disposed to share their possessions with others. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of these results and indicate avenues for future research.

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From commodity fetishism to commodity narcissism

Cited by 69 publications

References 38 publications

Narcissism normalisation: tourism influences and sustainability implications

Narcissism normalisation: tourism influences and sustainability implications

The cynicism of consumer morality

Consumer behaviour and the toilet: Research on expulsive and retentive personalities

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