Title |
READING WILLY WONKA IN THE ERA OF ANTI-THINKING
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Published in |
The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, April 2018
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DOI | 10.1057/s11231-018-9139-4 |
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Authors |
Ian S. Miller |
Abstract |
Whether encountered as a movie or novel, Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a childhood staple of postwar Anglophone culture. Originally published in 1964, Dahl's story of "Willie Wonka" is a morality tale for our times addressed by the present essay in relation to the precariousness, violence, intergenerational faith, and materialist fantasies reflective of contemporary life in the early twenty-first century. Compensating for the precarity of contemporary life's impoverishment as assumptions of societal stability are overthrown, this chronicle of the Bucket family details: envious desire validated by large group chosen trauma; authoritarian enslavement of inferior, colonized peoples with murderous, industrial-level human experimentation; toward gratification of the greedy fantasy of unlimited sweetness under the sway of lethal identification with the aggressor. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Mexico | 2 | 20% |
Sri Lanka | 2 | 20% |
United Kingdom | 1 | 10% |
Unknown | 5 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 8 | 80% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 10% |
Scientists | 1 | 10% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Unknown | 12 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Researcher | 4 | 33% |
Other | 1 | 8% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 1 | 8% |
Student > Master | 1 | 8% |
Unknown | 5 | 42% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Psychology | 3 | 25% |
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 1 | 8% |
Arts and Humanities | 1 | 8% |
Computer Science | 1 | 8% |
Social Sciences | 1 | 8% |
Other | 0 | 0% |
Unknown | 5 | 42% |