Tracking the white rabbit : a subversive view of modern culture /
Lyn Cowan.
- xvi, 135 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Tracking the white rabbit : notes on eccentricity -- Feeding the psyche : junk words and corn-fed music -- Women and the land : imagination and reality -- "Taking the dark with open eyes" : hidden dimensions of a psychology of abortion -- False memories, true memory, and maybes -- Styx and stones : hatred and the art of cursing -- The archetype of the victim -- Homo/aesthetics, or, romancing the self -- Sexual encounters of the third kind -- Blue notes : some reflections on melancholy -- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Tracking the White Rabbit: notes on eccentricity -- Feeding the psyche: junk words and corn-fed music -- Women and the land: imagination and reality -- "Taking The Dark With Open Eyes:" hidden dimensions of a psychology of abortion -- False memories, true memory, and maybes -- Styx and stones: hatred and the art of cursing -- The archetype of the victim -- Homo/aesthetics, or, romancing the self -- Sexual encounters of the third kind -- Blue notes: some reflections on melancholy. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
"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."--Publisher description.