Youth Fantasies: The Perverse Landscape of the Media [Paperback]

jan jagodzinski (Author)

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Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; First Edition edition (Aug 21 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1403961654
ISBN-13: 978-1403961655
Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.4 x 2 cm
Shipping Weight: 440 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #791,142 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"Youth Fantasies offers a new approach to the analysis of youth culture. Rather than inquiring into the effects of certain cultural activities of youth (such as whether playing violent video games makes kids more aggressive), jagodzinski examines such activities in order to ask, 'What do youth want?' That is, what basic, largely unconscious psychic needs or desires are youth trying to fulfill through their seemingly ubiquitous and endless engagements with various forms of media? jagodzinski 's rigorous Lacanian psychoanalytic exploration and theorizing of this question provides rich insights for educators and counsellors that no one concerned with youth or interested in Lacanian theory or postmodernity can afford to do without."--Mark Bracher, Professor and Director Center for Literature and Psychoanalysis, Kent State University

"Stylish and succinct, sophisticated yet accessible, this stunning statement renders our (youth) fantasies simultaneously recognizable and intelligible."--William F. Pinar, St. Bernard Parish Alumni Endowed Professor, Louisiana State University

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In Youth Fantasies, jan jagodzinski explores the meaning of "youth" in postmodern industrialized countries. His approach is decidedly psychoanalytic, drawing inspiration from a Lacanian paradigm as developed by the spirited writing of Slavoj Zizek. Youth Fantasies maintains that the symptoms of today's postmodern "youth" expose the "truth" of the Romantic modernist fantasy of the "innocent" or "divine" child that continues to residually structure beliefs concerning the institution of education and the nuclear family. jagodzinski develops this argument through three sections that deal with the problematic relationship between fantasy and reality, post-Oedipalization, and the cyber-subject. Incorporating a post-Lacanian psychoanalysis, jagodzinski asks us all to rethink the boundaries of reality and fantasy, youth and innocence, family and society.

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"Youth" as a dominant signifier of postmodernity is under constant semiosis. Read the first page

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