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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783801703321

Autore

Cowan Lyn <1942, >

Titolo

Tracking the white rabbit : a subversive view of modern culture / / Lyn Cowan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hove, East Sussex ; ; New York : , : Brunner-Routledge, , 2002

ISBN

1-135-45375-6

1-135-45376-4

1-280-10722-7

0-203-98934-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (152 p.)

Disciplina

150.1954

302

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis and culture

Jungian psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Tracking the White Rabbit A subversive view of modern culture; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; Chapter1 Tracking the White Rabbit: notes on eccentricity; Chapter2 Feeding the psyche: junk words and corn-fed music; Chapter3 Women and the land: imagination and reality; Chapter4 "Taking The Dark With Open Eyes:" hidden dimensions of a psychology of abortion; Chapter5 False memories, true memory, and maybes; Chapter6 Styx and stones: hatred and the art of cursing; Chapter7 The archetype of the victim; Chapter8 Homo/aesthetics, or, romancing the self

Chapter9 Sexual encounters of the third kindChapter10 Blue notes: some reflections on melancholy

Sommario/riassunto

Since its beginning, depth psychology has attempted to change the status quo of individual and cultural life by probing beneath surface appearances.  Lyn Cowan explores a number of subjects, considering what possible meanings and implications for change might lie behind the conventional attitudes toward such subjects as:* Abortion* Gender and sexuality* Language* Memory* MelancholyThe author puts forward the argument that, although ""psychology"" and ""subversion"" are not



usually thought of as belonging together, they should be.  Such a view, presented clearly with hum