Youth Fantasies
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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.
Introduction : a road map of what's to come1IThe non-divide between fantasy and reality : setting up our study151A historical Andenken : youthful appropriations172Our hypothesis : youth fantasies Lacanian style313A Lacanian approach to media49IIPost-oedipalization : postmodern drive culture674Is Kronos eating our children? : historical fathers695The contradictory demands of the superego : contemporary fathers876The loss of symbolic authority in postmodernity103IIICyberspace as obsessive interpassivity1237Media violence and youth (yet again!?)1258Between popular belief and fact1379Girl/gurl/grrrl video games and cyberspace15310The myths of media interactivity : youth and cyberspace16911Fantasy structure in virtual communities : the perverted GaZe18712The dream of total knowledge : hypertextual fantasies20913Looping back to video games : the question of technological interpassivity22114"Are the kids alright?"233
