In The Soul of Popular Culture, leading writers and critics, many of them influenced by the thought of C. G. Jung, draw upon the insights of depth psychology to delve into the meanings of TV programs like Star Trek and Fawlty Towers, movies such as The Piano and The Silence of the Lambs, and other contemporary media, as well as the public preoccupation with such issues as abortion, AIDS, the O.J. Simpson trial, and our enduring fascination with Elvis.
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Understanding the deeper meaning of culture,
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"The Soul of Popular Culture" is a significant contribution not only to understanding contemporary culture, but also to comprehending what is going on beneath the surface in the collective life and psyche of America. The contributors to this volume have extensive experience in depth psychology, which gives their analyses a dimension one will never find in the typical movie review or newspaper commentary on some pop singer. For those wanting to understand the deeper currents of our time, this is a valuable contribution.
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read the excerpt here,
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Go ahead read the excerpt included here at Amazon. This looks like an example of what passes for scholarship these days: erudite academics discussing popular culture. I might have found this more entertaining, had I not been forced to look up so many complicated words used in the excerpt - words for which there are simpler, and equally effective equivalents in more common use. Fortunately I have a great on-line dictionary that served me well.
When I was younger I may have found writing like this entertaining, but now I find it less so. So go read the excerpt here
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Beginning thirty years ago, in part, because of the controversial mythos of my own heritage, mestiza and Mexicana, and partly from having seen two gifted women, Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland, meet untimely and too early deaths, I delved more and more into the phenomena and mythos of sacrifice, the sacrificial victim, and the rites of human sacrifice. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pluralistic psychology, anime heroes, plural psyche, feminine hero, sentient machine, initiatory practices, female heroes, true initiation, archetypal energies, mythic heroes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Star Trek, Buffalo Bill, Princeton University Press, Heaven's Gate, United States, Elvis Presley, The Silence of the Lambs, World War, San Francisco, Other Woman, Lake Wobegon, Miss America, Bollingen Series, Clarice Starling, Hercules Complex, Hannibal Lecter, Random House, Star Blazers, Agent Starling, Electronic Hive, Fried Green Tomatoes, Harvard University Press, Jane Campion, Bureau of the Census New!
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Beginning thirty years ago, in part, because of the controversial mythos of my own heritage, mestiza and Mexicana, and partly from having seen two gifted women, Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland, meet untimely and too early deaths, I delved more and more into the phenomena and mythos of sacrifice, the sacrificial victim, and the rites of human sacrifice. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pluralistic psychology, anime heroes, plural psyche, feminine hero, sentient machine, initiatory practices, female heroes, true initiation, archetypal energies, mythic heroes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Star Trek, Buffalo Bill, Princeton University Press, Heaven's Gate, United States, Elvis Presley, The Silence of the Lambs, World War, San Francisco, Other Woman, Lake Wobegon, Miss America, Bollingen Series, Clarice Starling, Hercules Complex, Hannibal Lecter, Random House, Star Blazers, Agent Starling, Electronic Hive, Fried Green Tomatoes, Harvard University Press, Jane Campion, Bureau of the Census New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Paris, Texas by Sam Shepard on 5 pages
- Analytical Psychology: Its Theory and Practice (Ark Paperbacks) by C. G. Jung on 5 pages
- Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. Jung on 4 pages
- The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches) by Anne Rice on page 171, page 177, and page 180
- The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious (Collected Works of C.G. Jung Vol.9 Part 1) by C. G. Jung on page 92, page 273, and page 323
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