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Tracking the White Rabbit

A Subversive View of Modern Culture

• By Lyn Cowan

• Price: $19.95 $17.96
• Binding: Paperback
• Pages: 152
• Published by: Routledge
• Publication Date: 14th February 2002
• ISBN: 978-1-58391-198-3

About the Book

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
* Melancholy
The 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 humour and insight, offers a way to think differently about usual things, and yield fresh meaning to some of the pressing dilemmas of our time and how we as individuals may respond to them.

Table of Contents

Introduction. Tracking the White Rabbit. Feeding the Psyche - Junk words and Corn-fed Music. Women and the Land. "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.