The Case of California

• Author(s): Laurence A. Rickels,
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Pages: 373
• ISBN_10: 0816638780
  ISBN_13: 9780816638789
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Psychology / Social Psychology , Social Science / Media Studies ,

Description:... Focusing on the changing image of the West Coast through such varied social and cultural artifacts as bodybuilding, group therapy, suicide cults, milk-carton images of missing children, teenage slang, and surf music, Laurence Rickels offers a dizzying psychohistory of the twentieth century as crystallized in the symbolic configuration called California and considered in relation to German modernism, national socialism, and Freudian psychoanalysis.