Reading willy wonka in the era of anti-thinking.

READING WILLY WONKA IN THE ERA OF ANTI-THINKING.
Am J Psychoanal. 2018 Apr 11;:
Authors: Miller IS
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.
PMID: 29643373 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: American Journal of Psychoanalysis - April 11, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Miller IS Tags: Am J Psychoanal Source Type: research