The Lost Child Complex in Australian Film: Jung, Story and Playing Beneath the Past

ISBN-13: 9781138939691 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 164 str.

Terrie Waddell

Opis

In The Lost Child Complex in Australian Film, Terrie Waddell looks at the concept of the ‘lost child’ from a psychological and cultural perspective. Taking an interdisciplinary Jungian approach, she re-evaluates this cyclic storytelling motif in history, literature, and the creative arts, as the nucleus of a cultural complex.

Spis treści

Introduction. Part One: The Lost Child Complex - A Cultural and Screen History. Chapter 1: Beginnings: Complex, Settlement, Cultural memory;  Chapter 2: Literally Lost: Searchers, the Searched For and Grail Metaphors;  Chapter 3: Celebrating Defeat: The Blooded Child of War and Sport;  Part Two: Double Wounding;  Chapter 4: Double Wounding: Imposing Lostness;  Chapter 5: Inner and Outer Twinning: Parent as Lost Child/Lost Child as Parent;  Part Three: Inner Children and the Victory Complex;  Chapter 6: Stuck in the Past: Lost Child as Earworm;  Chapter 7: The Victory Complex: Nostalgia for the American Dream and the Art of the Win;  Concluding remarks; Index.

O autorze

Terrie Waddell, PhD, is Associate Professor of Screen Studies at La Trobe University, Australia. She researches and publishes on the relationships connecting screen media, myth, literature, gender, popular culture, and Jungian based psychology and is the author of Routledge’s Mis/takes: Archetype, Myth and Identity in Screen Fiction, Wild/lives: Trickster, Place and Liminality on Screen and a contributor to The International Handbook of Jungian Film Studies.