Youth Fantasies: The Perverse Landscape of the Media
Youth Fantasies is a collection of studies conducted in cross-cultural collaboration over the past ten years that theorizes 'youth fantasy'; as manifested through the media of TV, film, and computer games. Unlike other media studies and education books, t
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Youth Fantasies
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Youth F antasies: The Perverse Landscape of the M edia
jan jagodzinski
YOUTH FANTASIES
© jan jagodzinski, 2004 Softcover reprint of the hardcoover 1st edition 2004 978-1-4039-6164-8 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. First published 2004 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN™ 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 and Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England RG21 6XS Companies and representatives throughout the world PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin’s Press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN 978-1-4039-6165-5 DOI 10.1057/9781403980823
ISBN 978-1-4039-8082-3 (eBook)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Jagodzinski, Jan, 1953– Youth fantasies : the perverse landscape of the media / Jan Jagodzinski. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Mass media and youth. I. Title. P94.5.Y72J34 2004 302.23⬘0832—dc22
2003067262
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: August 2004 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
This book is dedicated to my wife Brigitte Hipfl whose presence is always dabei
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Contents
Acknowledgment
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Introduction: A Road Map of What’s to Come
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Some Preliminary Definitions of Terms The Researcher as No-Mad; or No-Madic Research A Brief Road-Map as to What’s to Come
I The Non-Divide Between Fantasy and Reality: Setting Up Our Study 1. A Historical Andenken: Youthful Appropriations Youth Demographics: The Difficulty of Boundaries Designer Capitalist Exploitation The Fantasy of Developmental Psychology The Future is “Now”: The Return of Repressed Youth
2. Our Hypothesis: Youth Fantasies Lacanian Style The Child as Spectral Object Revisiting the Future: The “Loss” of the Innocent Child The Fantasy of Objet a: Lacanian Innovations Putting it All Together: Fantasy Through an Example The Gun as the Lure of Objet a
3. A Lacanian Approach to Media The Stubborn and Defensive Ego Affective Body States and Triebe Imaginary and Symbolic Tensions Interpassivity and the Media Pathological Overidentification: The Fan as Predator Death Drive and the Dead Voice An Ethics of the Real: Transgression of and “Beyond” the Law
II Post-Oedipalization: Postmodern Drive Culture 4. Is Kronos Eating Our Children? Historical Fathers Saturn Devouring His Children When Can You Eat Your Son?
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From Freud’s Just-So Story to False Memory Syndrome Postmodern Kronos: Devouring His Children’s Dasein for Profit Today’s Monothe
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