| Tracking the White Rabbit: A Subversive View of Modern Culture Contributor(s): Cowan, Lyn (Author) |
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ISBN: 1583911987 ISBN-13: 9781583911983 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $35.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2002 Annotation: Like Alice following the white rabbit into a topsy-turvy world where the laws of logic don't apply, subversive thinking unearths the mysteries behind the mundane. "Tracking the White Rabbit" is a fascinating, original work that invites us to use depth psychology to challenge our deepest assumptions about world politics, theology, social norms, everyday speech, and usual ideas of sex and emotion. Raised in an environment of McCarthyism and rock-and-roll, Jungian analyst Lyn Cowan shows readers-through provocative essays on memory and homosexuality, music and the art of cursing-that we can flip our ingrained attitudes on their heads and achieve a better understanding of our cultural landscape. America has been plagued by a flattening of its psychic life, Cowan argues, exhibited in the escalating need for external stimulation and the distrust of intense emotion. With humor and insight, she confronts the "isms" that entrap our imaginations (capitalism, fundamentalism, feminism, sexism, antisemitism, communism) in order to unearth a more soul-serving culture. Encouraging us to mine the creativity of spontaneous imagination, this psychology brings dramatic new ideas and themes into focus, breaking down barriers and yielding fresh perspectives on some of the more pressing individual dilemmas of our time: abortion, gender, language, homosexuality, and victimization. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Movements - Jungian - Psychology | Mental Health |
| Dewey: 150.195 |
| LCCN: 2001043344 |
| Physical Information: 0.46" H x 5.54" W x 8.46" (0.43 lbs) 152 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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: |